About 53 percent of Hawaii's 2011 public school graduates went on to two- or four-year colleges, up 3 percentage points from the year before.
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Blueberry, orange and lavender are among some new options available on homes being built in the last subdivision within Makakilo.
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HILO >> The stepmom of three children who were taken by their father to the Bahamas on a sailboat against custody orders is being held without bail in Hawaii and will be extradited to Montana. Story »
MILWAUKEE >> One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter. Story »









On Tuesday, Foster Botanical Garden's "corpse flower" — for the first time since it was planted a decade ago — began smelling "like a dead cat."
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While on an all-day hike deep in Molokai's Halawa Valley five years ago, the popular Hawaiian folk singer and musician known simply as Lono ran across a friend, Lawrence Aki, who was guiding a group of visitors on the trail. Story »
