A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in second attempt to clean up a huge island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. Read more
A 38-year-old woman who had been charged with attempted murder in connection with the stabbing of her group home housemate has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Read more
Each week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser publishes Oahu statistics for marriage licenses and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health’s Vital Statistics System. The dates indicate when the information was filed. Read more
Question: Where does the city take our green waste, and what do they do with it? Read more
The salt makers of Hanapepe, Kauai, are again having to defend their salt beds — the earthen pans where they continue the ancient Hawaiian method of making salt from the ocean in a precise, multi-step process that requires expert-level knowledge. Read more
If you want to do business with Miller Industries, you’ll need to pick up the phone and have an actual conversation with an actual human being or, better, stop by the shop on Kalihi Street, where you can have that same actual conversation face to face with one of those human beings. Read more
It’s the last Sunday in May and time to “flASHback” on the month’s news that amused and confused: Read more
The Standard Model is what physicists call the current theory of fundamental particles and their interactions. Read more
I had to laugh when a six-column headline in the newspaper last week declared: “Kahele uses profanity describing race with Gabbard.” Read more
Hokule‘a, Arcturus in the constellation Bootes, is the zenith star for Hawaii, passing above the Kau desert on Hawaii island. Read more
There are strict rules in taxonomy, the science of classifying and naming organisms. Read more
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