Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNLANCHORS / REPORTERS

  • If an umpire does a good job calling a baseball game, he probably goes unnoticed. If a referee has done a good
    If an umpire does a good job calling a baseball game, he probably goes unnoticed. If a referee has done a good...

  • I started working at KGMB9 behind the camera-way behind the camera, as a video editor in 2002. Two

  • I joined the Hawaii News Now team on Monday, Feb. 7 as an anchor-reporter. Having thirteen of years of experience behind the anchor desk and also as a sports director,

  • I'm standing at the foot of my parent's bed. My father lowers the newspaper and looks at me over the top...

  • In September 1970, when I was about to be a high school senior, I wanted to be disc jockey. I went to a radio...

  • I'm not allowed to speak to my mom in English... only French, which is interesting because I grew up in...

  • My mother once told me "You're not always going to like your job."  Ever since that day, I've always felt...

  • Don't ask me why my family didn't subscribe to a newspaper when I was in the third grade. All I remember was...

  • Ever since I can remember I was always outside. Maybe it was because my father loved to fish and always took...

  • I have more than 30 years experience in broadcasting. Okay, let me explain.  I got my start "in the biz"...

  • I was one of those kids who always knew what he wanted to do when he grew up. In elementary school, I watched Bob Sevey anchoring the KGMB News at Six

  • While growing up on Maui, I never dreamed of a job in television news. My interest developed only after I...

  • Who would've known a person's middle name would have so much influence on one's life?  On the day I was born...

  • This might not sound politically correct for a journalist, but I've never had a "love affair" with news. I love...

  • I felt like I was in a scene from a Godzilla movie. People running, screaming, trying to escape the city as...

  • People always ask me how I got into this business. The short answer is I'm lucky. I was actually a political...

  • It was just another day in biology class until my teacher turned on the TV set.  She didn't say a word as she flipped...

  • I'm a workaholic.  I'll work from home, from a coffee shop, from a parked car, airport, hotel or restaurant. Of course, my work is sports, so none of it is really ‘work',

  • The gray started showing up years ago. First, just a sprinkling around the ears. Then it headed north. My friends...

  • It was a knock at my door that launched my career. A recruiter for the U.S. Marines stood there, asking me if...

  • When you first get into a newsroom, it can be hard to find your niche, your way of standing out and letting people...

  • Ramsay Puanani Wharton has been serving the people of Hawaii as a broadcast journalist for the past decade, most recently as...