The City Council Budget Committee last week gave tentative approval to a Honolulu Police Department request to transfer $10.25 million to cover salaries and wages during the last six weeks of the fiscal year due to unanticipated expenses. Read more
The State Sheriff Special Operations Fugitive Unit arrested Kamaka in the Makaha area on Thursday. 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: I read that the city is doing a survey about which Honolulu views to preserve. First, why do we have to choose? Protect them all! Second, this survey is only online. What about those of us who don’t have a computer or smartphone? I would like to express my opinion! Read more
A boy poses in his football uniform, his face the very image of high school glory. 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
What is it that gives numbers their power? Read more
The fast track appears to be on for a developer-promoted “world-class” playground at Ala Moana Beach Park featuring zip lines, water slides and splash pools. 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
Today, as we race toward a human-caused sixth mass extinction, it’s comforting to know how persistently conditions on Earth favor life. Homo sapiens may not be around to see it, but it will happen. Read more
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