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Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz wants the Transportation Security Agency to ease security screening measures for local residents on interisland flights.

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.

Hawaii Gas said Monday that it promoted Thomas Young to executive vice president of Strategic Initiatives & Supply and that he will be responsible for overseeing the continued development of the Honolulu company's LNG initiative.

Jennifer Sabas , who was the late Sen. Daniel Inouye 's Hawaii chief of staff, has been named executive director of Move Oahu Forward , a coalition of business leaders formed to support the $5.16 billion Honolulu rail project.

Vote for the best architecture! Ever wanted to share your opinion of a new building around town? This is your shot! From now until June 28, the AIA Honolulu's Peoples' Choice Award is up for public voting online.

Throughout 2013 - our 125th anniversary year - From Our Files will focus on a different theme each month, looking back at how particular aspects of life in Honolulu were lived and reported on by HONOLULU Magazine and its predecessor, Paradise of the Pacific .

Guillermo Aoalin May 24, 2013 Guillermo Aoalin, 92, of Honolulu, a retired Hawaii Laborers Union construction employee, died in Honolulu.

Starting today, small beekeepers can produce up to 500 gallons of honey a year and sell it to retail establishments as well as directly to the consumer without having to get a Department of Health permit or use a certified kitchen.

A 17-year-old Kalihi boy whose body was found on Kalanianaole Highway near Sandy Beach on April 12 was acutely intoxicated when he suffered fatal injuries involving a moving vehicle, the Honolulu medical examiner's office said today.

For the first time this year, the number of solar photovoltaic permits issued on Oahu in one month - May - were fewer by more than 200, when comparing the same month in 2012.

OliverMcMillan Pacific Rim says that sales of its 388-unit mixed-use Symphony Honolulu condominium in Kakaako across from the Neal Blaisdell Center have been strong, with 194 residences sold during the first two days of sales, and several potential buyers still reviewing their choices.

Microscopes, lab benches and glassware no longer needed at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine are finding their way into high school classrooms.

The City and County of Honolulu is adding a 20 percent fee to certain building permits to cut down on the number of permit applications that are never picked up or paid for.

The Medical Examiner's office has identified the 84-year-old Lahaina man, who died Saturday as the results of burns he received earlier in the week in a Kaanapali condominium fire, as Jurgen Vahrenkamp.

A sonar anomaly that researchers suspect might possibly be the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's aircraft is a straight, unbroken feature uncannily consistent with the fuselage of a Lockheed Electra, new analysis of the sonar imagery captured off a remote Pacific island has revealed.

An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists have created a video spotlighting their new 3-D map of the known universe.

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.

The Kitsap Sun reports that in her new position, Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar, of Honolulu, will oversee bases in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska.

It's tough being a smoker in Hawaii these days. Not only is it illegal to light up a cigarette in a bar, a restaurant or really any enclosed public space, in April, the city and county of Honolulu extended the smoking ban to some of Oahu's most popular parks, including Kapiolani Park, Kuhio Beach Park and Sandy Beach Park.

A private association of National Guard members plans to hold its annual conference in Honolulu this year, even though some officials at the Pentagon have questioned the wisdom of meeting in a vacation destination.