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Nearly a quarter of the states have approved a new compact that makes it easier for doctors to practice across their borders, and more states are considering joining.

Patient advocates say Hawaii needs to take swift action to suspend licenses of doctors who lose privileges in another state.

Whether climbing the backyard cherry tree as a child, teaching ancient Hawaiian games to students as a physical education instructor at Kamehameha Schools or leading classes in Korean dance as a busy retiree, nothing has ever moved Mary Jo Freshley more than the joy of movement itself.

1 inmate goes missing, another caught • Kalihi school damaged by arson • Homeless man rescued from stream

State officials joined local taro farmers Friday to commemorate completion of an extensive, $2.1 million restoration of Hanalei Stream on Kauai.

Question: It’s a tradition for us to provide a needy family with a complete turkey dinner for Thanksgiving. Do you know of an agency to connect us to one?

Tripler Army Medical Center medic Sgt. Michael Walker and the woman he allegedly conspired with to kill his wife first met online, and within a month of his wife’s death, he was visiting adult websites, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

The driver of a sport utility vehicle that ran over a motorcyclist on the H-1 freeway in Waipahu in April pleaded guilty in state court Monday to leaving the scene of a fatal crash and operating a vehicle without a valid driver’s license.

The city has reached a development agreement with a private company to put up a minimum of 151 senior rental units in two midrise towers along River Street near Vineyard Boulevard, the Caldwell administration announced Monday.

A majority of Hawaii residents support the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope and say construction should move forward on the summit of Mauna Kea.