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Police hunt Kalihi-Palama bank robber • Injured hiker rescued from Moanalua • Downpours flood highway in Kau district • Police seek information in Hilo mugging

Breene Harimoto wears a backpack around his house to carry the apparatus for the feeding tube that is still attached to his stomach. It’s not how he thought he’d spend his summer, battling an aggressive form of cancer. He had planned to be reading and researching in preparation for the legislative session. But not much in his life is what he thought it would be.

Hawaii island rescue personnel will continue a search for a missing swimmer in Hilo on Friday and were looking for a missing diver off North Kohala on Thursday night.

A San Francisco art collector who is being sued for allegedly selling possibly looted artifacts to the Honolulu Academy of Arts is suing back.

Several Chilean coastal towns were flooded from small tsunami waves set off by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake, but Hawaii saw only minor sea-level changes and wave height increases early Thursday before a tsunami advisory was canceled.

After 176 days on Mauna Kea, the Native Hawaiians protesting the planned Thirty Meter Telescope agreed to end their 24-hour vigil Thursday and remove a large tent from their camp.

A day after a lawsuit was filed to stop sweeps at homeless encampments, a city maintenance crew cleared personal belongings from a Kakaako block Thursday.

Hawaii island’s economy has been resilient in the face of tropical storms and overflowing lava but now faces another potential financial blow in the form of disruption of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.

The Emerald City is taking multiple routes in its search for solutions to its homeless problem. Seattle is simultaneously having nonprofit groups run multimillion-dollar high-rises that are available only to the homeless; planning city-sanctioned tent cities; and encouraging private landlords to rent apartments to people addicted to alcohol and drugs.

Rumblings under the world’s largest active volcano prompted scientists Thursday to raise the alert level for Mauna Loa. The volcano sent lava toward Hilo when it last erupted in 1984.