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HUNGERING FOR PARADISE: On a recent trip to Japan last month, Melvin Masaki and wife Clara Masaki of Salt Lake stumbled upon Hawaiian Diner in Nagano City.

The 50th State Fair is back with three new rides on the E.K. Fernandez midway of rides, racing pigs and performing puppies.

Members of Occupy Honolulu, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests government policies on homelessness and other perceived social injustices, filed a lawsuit in December seeking to block the city's enforcement of the so-called stored property ordinance.

Much of what Tax Director Fred Pablo told the Honolulu Rail Transit Authority board echoed what department officials have already said: A lag in processing tax returns, thanks to the Department of Taxation being short-staffed, has led to the project receiving about $29 million less than anticipated so far from the 0.5 percent general excise tax ... (more)

Part of Aqua's Monogram Hotel Collection, Volcano House is a historic property located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

More than any other single artist, Britney Spears was the driving force behind the return of teen pop in the late '90s. The blockbuster success of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys certainly paved the way for her own commercial ... Once dubbed "the Jay-Z of the South" by Pharrell Williams , T.I. gradually came into his own and established himself ... (more)

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Ed Lynch, managing editor/news, at 529-4758. >> A Page B3 photo caption Wednesday transposed the names of Clifton Mission and Dominick Abalos, two of the men who rescued a missing hiker Monday on Kauai.

Members of Guam Community College's Class of 2013 parade into the University of Guam field house during their commencement ceremony in Mangilao yesterday.

Connielen Bernisto Ballocanag April 29, 2013 Connielen Bernisto Ballocanag, 46, of Honolulu and the Philippines, a housekeeper, died in the Philippines.

Nick Velasquez, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound shooting guard from Honolulu, Hawaii, has signed a national letter of intent to play men's basketball at Western Washington University beginning this fall.

Last Thursday, May 9, the Caldwell administration revealed its action plan for solving Honolulu's homeless problem.

Bicyclists have long been overlooked by four-wheel riders on Honolulu's congested streets.

Who says you can't have it all? Come on, all you lovers of reading , music, film and dance-here's your chance to hoolaulea with your friends and Hawaii's arts community for an entire weekend.

For as long as we can remember, Chinatown has been notorious for drugs, homelessness and filthy streets.

This March file photo shows a Honolulu City Council meeting at Honolulu Hale. Council members shown are, front to back: Stanley Chang, Joey Manahan, Ann Kobayashi, Breene Harimoto, Ikaika Anderson, Carol Fukunaga, Ron Menor and Kimberly Marcos Pine.

PBS Hawaii President and CEO Leslie Wilcox says the organization has raised $21 million of the $30 million it needs to break ground on a new facility.

Gun registrations and permits are available only at HPD's main station at South Beretania and Alapai streets.

A federal judge in Hawaii is setting conditions for the pretrial release of a defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend.

A Kailua man was drunk May 5 when his pickup truck hit a tree on the Pali Highway, killing himself and a teenage girl and injuring another girl, the Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office said.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser former reporter Mary Vorsino won first place in the Best of the West journalism competition's general reporting category for her Nov.