Hawaii News Now media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Hawaii News Now in the centre. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Hawaii News Now biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Hawaii News Now in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Hawaii News Now left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Hawaii News Now in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Hawaii News Now reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Hawaii News Now are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Hawaii News Now has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Hawaii News Now’s own report linked underneath.
Vice President JD Vance's antifraud task force is removing hundreds of thousands of enrollments from the Affordable Care Act's public exchanges. The action targets 760,000 individual accounts for allegedly unauthorized and fraudulent applications, with an estimated $2.2 billion in taxpayer funds expected to be saved.
Hawaii News Now reported it asHundreds of Hawaii residents could lose Obamacare health insurance benefits in fraud crackdown (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
Rodney Mims Cook Jr, who oversees the expansion of the White House ballroom, met Kremlin officials including Anton Kobyakov during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2026. The U.S. State Department said it was unaware of the delegation, while the White House stated it continues to seek a constructive role in peace talks.
Hawaii News Now reported it asTrump says people who oppose White House ballroom are ‘very disloyal to our country’ (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
A Missouri judge issued an arrest warrant for Jill Stein after she and her attorney failed to appear at a court hearing on 20 August 2026. The warrant was later dropped when her attorney appeared in court. Stein faces misdemeanour charges of trespassing and assault from an April 2024 protest at Washington University in St. Louis.
Hawaii News Now reported it asSt. Louis judge issues warrant for 2024 presidential candidate after failing to appear in court (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
Hawaii News Now reported it asAutopsy completed for actress Hayden Panettiere, coroner says (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
USS Abraham Lincoln crew endure record deployment amid food shortages and mental health crisis
Trust 96The USS Abraham Lincoln has spent over 250 days at sea without docking, the longest continuous deployment on record. Reports describe food shortages, malfunctioning toilets and sailors attempting to jump overboard. Congressional Democrats have demanded an explanation from the defence secretary.
Hawaii News Now reported it asConcern grows over conditions aboard USS Lincoln, with reports of crew members trying to jump overboard (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft last month after an Iranian assassination threat was detected, according to reports. The White House had stated he was aboard Air Force One, but the press was left on a decoy flight as part of an elaborate ruse to conceal his departure.
Hawaii News Now reported it asNew details emerge about Trump's secret plane switch (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria to Toronto was cancelled after a child refused to sit down and fasten their seatbelt, forcing the aircraft to return to the terminal. The delay caused the flight to miss the airport’s 12:30 a.m. runway closure, leaving passengers rebooked for the following day.
Hawaii News Now reported it asFlight canceled when young child standing in seat refuses to put on seat belt for takeoff (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
Kirill Basin, a Democratic candidate for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District, was arrested on 3 August 2026 after allegedly threatening beachgoers with a knife and implying he had a gun. A video shows him being knocked unconscious by another man. He faces two felony charges and $1 million bail.
Hawaii News Now reported it asCongressional candidate arrested after Maui beach altercation, bail set at $1 million (opens Hawaii News Now in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Hawaii News Now.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
- Official site
- hawaiinewsnow.com
- Seen publishing on
- hawaiinewsnow.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 7 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Hawaii News Now is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Hawaii News Now: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 24 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 24 September 2026. Ratings pulled 9 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Hawaii News Now, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Hawaii News Now publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.