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                                The leisure and hospitality industry had the largest increase in the job market with a growth of 1,400 positions. Job applicants Kirk Fong, left, and Lanoa Keahinuuanu attended The Hawaii Career Expo on Aug. 8.

Unemployment rate rises to 11-month high

Updated on  August 19, 2016 at 10:42 pm

Unemployment rate rises to 11-month high

Updated on  August 19, 2016 at 10:42 pm

Newswatch

Water main break geyser soaks building

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply was expected to work late into Friday evening repairing a water main in Waipahu that residents’ videos showed spewing water on an apartment building. Read More

911 Report

Man accused of jerking bus’ steering wheel

Prosecutors have charged a 43-year-old man with interfering with a city bus driver while he was driving in Chinatown. Read More

Vital Statistics

Vital Statistics

Each Sunday, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser publishes Oahu vital statistics for marriage licenses and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health’s Vital Statistics System. The statistics cover the five-business-day period ending the Thursday of the previous week. Read More
Updated on  August 15, 2016 at 12:13 am

Kokua Line

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                                In this June 26, 2015 photo, drivers head into downtown Honolulu from the island’s west side.

Beat back-to-school traffic with these varied strategies

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                                In this June 26, 2015 photo, drivers head into downtown Honolulu from the island’s west side.

Updated on  August 19, 2016 at 5:23 am
Question: Since the University of Hawaii at Manoa is back in session on Monday, I’d be interested in a story about how much additional time a person should give himself/herself to get to the same destination come Monday. Read More

Lee Cataluna

ALS patient remains busy fundraising to help others

Steven Vidinha keeps a money jar in his room. When people come to see him, he shakes them down for cash. If they make an excuse, like saying they don’t have their wallet, Vidinha makes a mental note and goes after twice as much the next time he sees them. The sign on the jar is very blunt: “What’s in your pocket?” Read More

Keep Hawaii Hawaii

COURTESY DAVID CHEEVER
                                Architect Claude Albon Stiehl designed the building that now houses the Hawaii Baptist Academy elementary school in a “restrained” art deco style.

Move from downtown gave nuns site with art deco charm

COURTESY DAVID CHEEVER
                                Architect Claude Albon Stiehl designed the building that now houses the Hawaii Baptist Academy elementary school in a “restrained” art deco style.

Updated on  June 4, 2016 at 9:35 pm
As you approach the front of the art deco building that now houses the Hawaii Baptist Academy elementary school at Nuuanu and Bates, your eyes can’t miss the nearly 15-foot-high grand entry doors of carved koa. It’s hard to think of others like them anywhere else in Honolulu. Read More

Incidental Lives

Grandmother’s smile sends Kaiser visitors on their way

Whatever their condition, disposition or reason for coming, visitors to Kaiser Permanente’s Honolulu Clinic are assured of at least two things as they leave: a genuine smile and a warm wish goodbye. Read More

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Money mysteries and comic capers fill summer reading

It’s the last Sunday in July and time to “flASHback” on the month’s news that amused and confused. Read More
Updated on  July 30, 2016 at 9:05 pm

Facts of the Matter

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                                Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winners Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna arrive at the second annual Breakthrough Prize award ceremony in Mountain View, Calif. More prizes are likely in their future.

CRISPR gene editing offers promise for treating defects

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                                Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winners Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna arrive at the second annual Breakthrough Prize award ceremony in Mountain View, Calif. More prizes are likely in their future.
A new gene editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9 has turned the biology world upside down and will have an immeasurable effect on genetic and molecular biology research in the coming years. Read More

Volcanic Ash

Roundup of insightful quotes helps discern bull of politics

I wish I could pour you a bloody mary to help digest the primary election results, but as the next best thing I offer some of my favorite quotations about politics Read More
Updated on  August 14, 2016 at 12:10 am

Skywatch

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August glitters with ‘star’ shower, planet powwow

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Updated on  July 30, 2016 at 8:58 pm
This August features a gathering of planets just above the sun at dusk, and the return of the most famous meteor shower. Read More

Ocean Watch

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                                A cleaner wrass with an island jack customer.

Little cleaner wrasses offer spa experience to other fish

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                                A cleaner wrass with an island jack customer.
Last week, in about 7 feet of water, I swam over a reef wall and found myself in the middle of a dozen jacks, a new species to me, each bearing yellow, dashlike marks on their sides. Read More

Shining Stars

COURTESY JUNCHENG SHEN
                                University of Hawaii-Manoa architecture students, with assistant professor Hongtao Zhou, right, took third prize at a competition in Shanghai.

UH students receive $10,000 awards

COURTESY JUNCHENG SHEN
                                University of Hawaii-Manoa architecture students, with assistant professor Hongtao Zhou, right, took third prize at a competition in Shanghai.
Six University of Hawaii graduate students have received $10,000 awards from the Soroptimist International Founder Region. Read More