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Seven of 15 members on California's state medical board are not physicians. That's 47 percent. On Rhode Island's panel, 46 percent are nonphysicians, or public members. Delaware's not far behind at 44 percent. Hawaii: 18 percent.

Free “AgCurious” seminars, for people interested in trying their hand at farming, are coming up soon at Leeward and Windward community colleges.

When a doctor, physician assistant or other health care provider applies for a license in California, state law allows regulators to consider a criminal conviction that has been expunged from the applicant's record as long as the underlying offense relates directly to the qualifications or duties of the job.

On a highway 50 miles from the Austrian border in 1945, American soldier Shigeru Nakamura and other members of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion were moving as a spearhead across Germany to overcome any Nazi resistance.

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.

State officials say they hope the Aiea Public Library’s photovoltaic solar panels will be activated early next year, nearly a year and a half after the facility opened at the former Aiea Sugar Mill site.

He told regulators he first met the patient on a Hawaii golf course. Before long, Dr. Mark Fortune was issuing prescriptions to his new patient for powerful painkiller and anti-anxiety pills without examining him, according to California medical board records.

The Institute for Human Services had one year to test the Housing First concept and find 115 permanent homes for clients — helping to alleviate Oahu’s homeless crisis.

After a 16-year run, the Gingerbread Festival, a popular charity event and holiday tradition for hundreds of island families statewide, has been discontinued.

The number of gender violence crimes on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus — including reports of sex assault, domestic violence and stalking — was mostly unchanged in 2014 compared with the year before, according to the university’s latest crime statistics report.