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One show down... TWO to go! We're talkin' about Bruno Mars... Who took down the house last night! FANS SCREAMING AS THEY WALK OUT The singer kicked off his first of three shows last night at the Neal Blasidell Arena in Honolulu.

Excitement gripped Honolulu immediately when concert promoter "Uncle Tom" Moffatt announced that he was bringing Hawaii-born, Roosevelt High School grad Bruno Mars back to the Blaisdell Arena.

Marie Ayres March 26, 2014 Marie "Doll" Ayres, 82, of Honolulu, a homemaker, died in Honolulu.

Joshu Osmanski remains free on $10,000 unsecured signature bond pending trial in June.

Honolulu police are looking for two car theft suspects captured on video surveillance cameras stealing a 2005 Scion from an apartment parking lot in Kailua last week.

Three cruise ship are scheduled to call into the Port of Pago Pago for October with the first set to sail into port, Tuesday, Oct. 2. The 'Rhapsody of the Seas' arrives around 8 a.m. from Lahaina, Hawai'i and departs around 5 p.m. for Apia, Samoa, according to the American Samoa Visitor's Bureau schedule.

A Qantas Airbus A380-800, registration VH-OQK performing flight QF-94 from Los Angeles,CA to Melbourne,VI , was enroute at FL340 about 150nm north of Honolulu,HI when a second fuel pump failed prompting the crew to abort the Pacific crossing and return to Los Angeles for a safe landing about 9:20 hours after departure.

Honolulu Fire Chief Manuel Neves has received a unanimous "no confidence" vote against him from leaders of the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association.

A California developer's plan to build a second condominium-hotel tower in Waikiki that would be next door to its Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach, project currently under construction on Kuhio Avenue, is currently being reviewed by the City and County of Honolulu with a public hearing scheduled for June 6. Pacrep LLC is aiming to get a ... (more)

You could say it's hard to make it in Hawaii. But come Saturday, if you go to Honolulu's first-ever Mini Maker Faire, you'll see there's a thriving underground network of makers ready to be unearthed.

President Barack Obama is seen in this March 13 file photo from Bloomberg. Illinois lawmakers have given preliminary approval to spending $100 million in state funds to attract the Obama presidential library to Chicago.

The commander of the Kaneohe District of the Honolulu Police Department has been suspended after the filing of a temporary restraining order.

House and Senate members are still negotiating on the version of House Bill 1926 they will send to the governor.

Honolulu police are investigating a robbery and stabbing. They say a 16-year-old teen was robbed on Pupu-kea Road in Hale-i-wa at 10-30 last night and was then stabbed.

Robertson Properties Group has won final approval from the Honolulu City Council for its $767 million mixed-use project on the site of the former Kam Drive-In near Pearlridge Center in Aiea, which would add as many as 1,500 residential units along with retail and office space.

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The University of Hawaii's athletic department wants to lease the former Sedona space at Ward Centre for a store called H-Zone, which would be more than double the size of the current Rainbowtique at the shopping center.

Mia Marie Pope knew Obama at their Punahou high school in Honolulu, Hawaii, during the late 1970s.

An operation to reduce crime in Kalihi led to 140 arrests and 115 citations over the weekend, Honolulu Police said Tuesday.