Honolulu News

The new tech savvy safety checks have encountered some set backs, and there's some controversy over a Honolulu rail executive and a recently issued rail contract.

After five consecutive Hawaii vacations, President Barack Obama is expected to travel back to Oahu with his family this month once again.

Honolulu Police Department's auto theft detail is investigating the theft of a city flatbed truck and $71,000 in street cleaning equipment from a Chinatown park last week.

It's horrible, said James Weisman, a Honolulu attorney. ~~ An Ala Moana resident who recently returned from the Philippines described the devastation in Tacloban as a scene from an apocalypse movie: overturned cars, flattened structures, and toppled trees and utility poles.

Honolulu police said the man displayed a dangerous weapon and fled with a 29-year-old woman's personal property.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie named Honolulu attorney Jeffrey Portnoy to the university's 15-member governing board last month.

U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi granted a preliminary injunction to Cathy Sugar Russell and Terry Anderson for violating their due-process and Fourth Amendment rights during a series of raids from July to September at Occupy Honolulu's Thomas Square encampment.

And as part of his plea deal with the government, Matthew Brian Case, 47, accepted his sentence of a $100 fine.

Honolulu, Hawaii President Obama addressed the topic of immigration during his visit to the Betty Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco, last week.

Honolulu police say Anthony Duzant died Nov. 27 as a result of a suicidal fall from an elevated height.

Editor's note: As part of the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor we are republishing some articles from The Times-Picayune of that week.

Sonya M. Badayos Nov. 10, 2013 Sonya M. Badayos, 61, of Waianae, a hairdresser and caregiver, died in the Queen's Medical Center.

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos.

PBS Hawaii said Friday that it has closed on the sale of its property in Waikiki, which was once to be the site of the public television station's new home, to MW Group for $3.5 million.

The Honolulu law firm Porter McGuire Kiakona Chow LLP has a new name, as new leadership has been added and former partners have moved on to form their own firm.

An art lecture that was to be presented by Princess Akiko, a member of Japan's royal family, on Tuesday at Hawaii Pacific University has been canceled after she fainted and was hospitalized in Japan.

Seventy-two years ago today, Americans awoke to a Sunday that probably began pretty much the way most other Sundays begin.

You may not realize this, but Santa's had some work done. When not perched atop Honolulu Hale's fountain, he reclines in a Pearl City warehouse, where sculptor Alex Ching, recreation specialist with the Department of Parks and Recreation, and his team wash and repair close to 50 sculptures in preparation for the Honolulu City Lights display.

Herb Weatherwax, left, spoke with a visitor at Pearl Harbor on Nov. 22. The 96-year-old retired electrician is one of four Pearl Harbor survivors who volunteer to greet people at the historic site.

KITV4 viewers weigh in on the recently approved Kaka'ako high rise, 801 South, at the old Honolulu Advertiser building.