Reporting from Honolulu — Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress who served for more than three decades, died Friday. He was 93. Akaka died in Honolulu after ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) (C) hugs Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) (2nd L) as they cross paths during a senate vote in the early morning hours at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the U.S. Senate and a fixture for decades on Capitol Hill, where he became known as the "ambassador of aloha," ...

Former Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka, who represented Hawaii in Congress for nearly four decades and was regarded as a champion of Native Hawaiian culture, died early Friday morning. He was 93. Limited ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - While other political races may get nasty, the two candidates running for Office of Hawaiian Affair’s Board of Trustees Oahu seat have a unique connection. Kalei Akaka is ...

Retired Democratic Senator Daniel Akaka, the only U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry, will be honored tonight by the National Education Association as one of three recipients of the Human and ...

WASHINGTON » It is a name that has echoed prominently through the Senate for years, even though most Americans know very little about the person himself. "Mr. Akaka. …" It has been both a signal for ...

HONOLULU — Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress, has died. He was 93. Akaka died Friday in Honolulu after being hospitalized for several months, said Jon Yoshimura ...

Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka announced late Wednesday he will retire next year, becoming the seventh senator and fifth Democrat to forgo another term in 2012. "After months of thinking about my political ...

(Reuters) - Former Senator Daniel Akaka, the first native Hawaiian in the U.S. Senate, who strove for recognition of Filipino veterans who fought with the United States during World War Two, died on ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress who served for more than three decades, died Friday. He was 93. File - In this June 11, 2009 file photo ...