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Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes was arrested and charged with spouse abuse Oct. 31 after he allegedly injured his wife during an argument at the Four Seasons Resort in Wailea, police said Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Mark Takai had surgery to remove a small, cancerous tumor in his pancreas Tuesday and was resting after the operation at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., according to a spokesman.

Most of us pay for city services that we rarely use. Some people can go for years without ever calling the police or the fire department. Many will go their whole life without ever applying for a building permit. It is possible to be born and raised on Oahu and never ride TheBus.

They were barefoot nisei Japanese-American plantation kids growing up next door to Marine Corps Air Station Ewa who would witness the attacks of Dec. 7, 1941, and their parents’ concerns about Japan, and then go on to serve the United States.

A day after releasing a poll showing support from a majority of Hawaii residents, the developers of the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope on Tuesday announced that construction would begin later this month on the initial stages of the $1.4 billion project.

The state is finally pulling the plug on Honey Bee USA Inc., developer of the planned Waikiki Landing at the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor, for nonpayment of more than $500,000 in back rent and a $1 million performance bond.

On this Veterans Day, outreach workers are still trying to get the last 55 homeless military veterans on Oahu into a system that’s designed to take them from the streets and into a shelter within 30 days and find them a permanent place to live within 90 days.

State health officials said Tuesday the number of confirmed locally acquired dengue fever cases has climbed to 33 from 27 in Hawaii County.

While Hawaii has more licensed physicians per 100,000 residents than any other state, about half the roughly 9,700 doctors live outside the state.