Honolulu News

A big name is now backing Senator Brian Schatz in his campaign to keep his seat in Congress, and talks about lowering the age to vote.

For better or worse, Hawaii brings out the amateur photographer in us all. Majestic mountain views? Empty stretches of white sand? We can hardly be blamed for the urge to whip out our iPhones and play Ansel Adams.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell has submitted a proposal to the City Council to allow paid advertisements on the sides and backs of city buses that could bring in an estimated $8 million in revenue per year.

Police are looking for a man in his 20s who is suspected of raping three women on May 28, June 13 and Dec. 1. In the most recent case, the man sexually assaulted a woman about 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Philippines disaster created fear for a beloved Hawaii minister who in September retired in Tacloban, the city devastated the most by Typhoon Haiyan.

The U.S. Postal Service has released suggested mailing dates for Hawaii residents to mail their letters, cards and packages to give them the best chances of reaching their destinations by Christmas.

Criminal Investigation Division Maj. Richard Robinson said this is the first such series Honolulu has had since the Mililani rapes of the late 1990s and called it a very rare occurrence in Honolulu.

Brad Mark Baxter Nov. 14, 2013 Brad Mark Baxter, 39, of Ewa Beach, a Honolulu Recovery Services employee, died in Ewa Beach.

Keep The North Shore Country has filed a lawsuit in Hawaii's 1st Circuit Court that seeks to require Turtle Bay Resort to properly study the environmental impacts of its proposed expansion plan that would add two new hotels to the resort on Oahu's North Shore.

Philippines disaster created fear for a beloved Hawaii minister who in September retired in Tacloban, the city devastated the most by Typhoon Haiyan.

Weber State University professor Brian Davis died on Nov. 29 at age 59. Davis was an interfaith trailblazer, respected professor of business administration and a Century Institute scholar in the Goddard School of Business and Economics.

The U.S. Postal Service has released suggested mailing dates for Hawaii residents to mail their letters, cards and packages to give them the best chances of reaching their destinations by Christmas.

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Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory photo shows a light from a research submarine illuminating the deck of a submerged Second World War-era Japanese mega-submarine, the I-400, discovered off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii in August 2013.

The Hawaii Community Development Authority expects to make a decision on Wednesday regarding a Honolulu developer's plan to build a second residential tower in Kakaako with an accompanying 10-story parking garage on the site of the former Honolulu Advertiser building, the state said Monday.

Allen Yamada also pleaded guilty to filing a false federal tax return and laundering the money through a cleaning company.

Honolulu police credit an alert neighbor with helping police a 17-year-old boy suspected in the burglary of an Ewa Beach home.

Aqua Hospitality will expand its hotel management operations outside of Hawaii for the first time when the Honolulu-based company begins managing two hotels on Guam, starting in December.

A federal judge in Honolulu ordered former world kick-boxing champion Dennis Alexio this morning to remain in federal custody in his theft, tax fraud and money laundering case until he can be placed at a halfway house.

Here this morning is CIVIL-BEAT-Engagement reporter, Gene Park. KITV4's Andrew Pereira was the first to KITV4's Andrew Pereira was the first to report that the city was facing a $156 million shortfall.