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You can take a number, but nobody had taken a number. Instead, the throng of people just crowded around the glass cases admiring the selection, making up their minds and waiting to catch the eye of one of the bakery ladies.

University of Hawaii President David Lassner is recommending longtime university executive Doris Ching to lead the UH-West Oahu campus on an interim basis after the scheduled retirement of Rockne Freitas at the end of the year.

At their teacher's instruction, students lined up on one side of the Ewa Makai Middle School basketball court tap the red buttons on their iPads to begin recording.

With the pace of construction picking up and major new contract awards on the horizon, the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation on Thursday launched its plan to borrow up to $350 million to help cover the ongoing cost of the city's 20-mile rail project.

The state for weeks warned homeless people camped out along the Kakaako shoreline that they would be removed in sweeps that were to begin as soon as Thursday, but it's now unclear when or how that will happen after no takers were found in the search for contractors to come in and do the work.

Dale Derrick Rodriguez Jr. on Thursday told jurors in his murder trial that he hit the victim with a curved metal pipe to protect himself and his family.

Three people arrested for blocking telescope construction crews on a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians want to testify at their upcoming trials in Hawaiian.

Crews of the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokule‘a have spent the past year and a half pushing their limits, sailing the vessel as far from home as they ever could.

A 33-year-old inmate was caught trying to escape from Oahu Community Correctional Center on Tuesday.

High surf predicted for eastern shores • Kupuna health workshops begin Dec. 8 in Kilauea • ‘Aquathon’ set at Kihei pool