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The City Council last week voted to approve two resolutions providing land use and fee concessions to two Kakaako developers who want to put up affordable workforce housing in the fast-growing Ala Moana area.

A sports scholarship has been a “ticket out” for talented young athletes for more than a century. For one in a million it leads to a career in professional sports and possible stardom. For tens of thousands of others, a scholarship can mean a college degree and a big boost up the economic ladder.

Rodney Veary compares his life to “Forrest Gump” — a series of amazing episodes, a crazy mix of happenstance and dog luck, and a central character willing to go along to see what happens next.

To honor Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole for his commitment to the Hawaiian community, residents have pushed for the renaming of Nanakuli Beach Park to Kalanianaole Beach Park for many years.

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.

Prosecutors are reviewing a manslaughter charge against a 24-year-old man accused of causing another man’s death in Mililani Mauka last month, but the suspect’s attorney says prosecutors told him they plan to drop the charge.

Twenty-five fugitives were arrested for various offenses in a multi-law enforcement agency operation in Kona, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.

Two people were convicted Thursday in the first two District Court trials on Hawaii island against protesters of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea.

The state Department of Health ordered a Waikiki buffet restaurant closed Friday because of food safety violations, following a report of a foodborne illness Oct. 13.

A Honolulu police officer pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to charges that he knowingly bought a stolen sport utility vehicle from another officer and arranged with that officer for the fraudulent theft of another SUV.