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Scott Glenn, a former Hawaii Sierra Club official, was appointed director of the state Office of Environmental Quality Control by Gov. David Ige on Thursday.

Former Honolulu police officer Vincent Morre apologized in U.S. District Court on Friday to his family, his former fellow police officers and to the two men he assaulted in an illegal gambling house last year while on duty.

Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream & Desserts is closing its McCully store Oct. 20 after 30 years because its lease at the Varsity Center has ended, according to owner Keith Robbins.

Just over a week after issuing its first red placard, the state’s food safety inspection program has issued a second, shutting down an Ala Moana Center seafood establishment.

Hawaii island police are investigating $50,000 in damage to a fiber-optic cable line on Mauna Kea.

A 25-year-old North Shore man who lost his lower leg in a shark attack last week is on the road to recovery.

The owner of Affordable Casket & Moanalua Mortuary pleaded guilty in state court Friday to stealing state death benefits from Medicaid clients. He accepted a plea deal that will send him to jail for 30 days.

Stephanie Mew teaches her third-graders at Kapunahala Elementary that failure is a good thing. She even created an acronym — FAIL, for First Attempt in Learning — to encourage critical thinking and creativity.

After the Aiea Sugar Mill was torn down in 1998, community members envisioned transforming the property into a gathering place that could feature senior housing and a community center.

Following this week’s successful cleanup of the Kakaako homeless encampment, city and state officials are embarking on a new approach to getting people off the streets of an island state with the highest per capita rate of homelessness in the country.