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Uneasy about giving the OK to extend the 0.5 percent surcharge on general excise tax on Oahu consumers for five years to build the contentious rail project, City Council members continue to press transit officials for alternatives.

Convicted killer Bryan Suitt chose not to say anything in state court Monday as he received the mandatory life prison term with the possibility of parole.

State Department of Health officials met Monday with residents of South Kona, a hot spot of dengue fever exposure, with 23 of the 27 cases on Hawaii island so far.

The Defense Department on Monday recovered for identification and return to families the last of 388 sailors and Marines killed on the battleship USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, and later buried as “unknowns” in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

A Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board member serves as a director at the law firm that will be paid to defend the city in a challenge to the validity of key votes on the rail project.

KOROR, Palau >> Because I flew to this island nation directly from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, my expectations were high. And sure enough, before I even got my feet wet, I saw an animal that moved me to tears.

The National Park Service has reopened the USS Arizona Memorial to visitors after engineers determined its dock is safe.

Question: I tried to get on the bus with my bike, and the driver said it wouldn’t fit, even though there was only one other bike in the rack. … He wouldn’t let me bring it inside the bus either. I didn’t want to argue and slow down the other passengers, but how could he be so sure that it wouldn’t fit. What are the rules?

A scientist is warning that without continued funding, the state’s best vog forecasting map could go away, leaving residents to analyze for themselves where vog will be.

The Libertarian Party of Hawaii held its annual convention Sunday amid concessions that its candidates — as few as they might be — face an uphill battle.