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A lightning bolt hit Sweetie Pacarro’s house as she watched the storm from her window Monday night in Kunia.
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A bill allowing food trucks and other vendors to operate on city roads and highways for up to three hours at a time advanced from the City Council Transportation Committee Thursday afternoon.
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A monthlong sand-replenishment project undertaken to widen a stretch of Waikiki Beach will be more disruptive than initially planned, officials said Thursday. But most of the 2.5-mile beach will remain open and only a portion will be periodically blocked in the mornings.
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A group of property owners wants the City Council to rescind a new law that has removed horses as “livestock” qualifying for a property tax discount.
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A spontaneous kiss between a Marine just returned from Af­ghani­stan and his male partner in Hawaii has become famous since a photo of the embrace emerged on Facebook during the weekend, drawing thousands of overwhelmingly supportive comments in a relatively new post-don’t ask, don’t tell military.
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A serial forgery artist with a 20-year rap sheet allegedly tried, after being released on probation, to buy two Waikiki jewelry kiosks last year with more than ,000 in bogus checks drawn from an Oahu Community Correctional Center inmate trust account.
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Grove Farm Co., which owns the land at Koloa Camp on Kauai, has turned down an offer from a local developer to purchase the property to help tenants facing eviction stay in their homes.
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A scorned 41-year-old Haleiwa man apparently shot dead his estranged wife, 40, the morning after Valentine’s Day at her boyfriend’s Waimea Bay home and then turned the gun on himself, police said.
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U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono has a dominant hold in the Demo­cratic primary for U.S. Senate, a new Hawaii Poll shows, opening an early double-digit gap over former Congressman Ed Case.
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Hawaii will receive an estimated million as part of a billion joint federal-state settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers over foreclosure abuses and fraud, state Attorney General David M. Louie said Thursday.
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