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The state Senate unanimously confirmed two nominees by Gov. David Ige to state Circuit Court as well as a third nominee to Honolulu District Court before adjourning a two-day special session Friday.

City garbage pickup is expected to return to normal for all Honolulu households today after a week of failing to collect trash from a number of homes from Hawaii Kai to Aliamanu, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Services said.

China’s ambitions in the South China Sea were very much on the minds of Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the military members asking him questions Friday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

Four more cases of dengue fever were reported by the state Department of Health on Friday as officials continued to search for clues that might help them knock out the Big Island outbreak.

The father of “Peter Boy” Kema, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared 18 years ago under suspicious circumstances, was released Friday without charges, pending investigation into an alleged drug and firearm case, but the boy’s mother remained in custody for an alleged welfare fraud case.

Maui Rep. Angus McKelvey entered a no-contest plea Friday to two misdemeanor charges that include filing inaccurate campaign spending reports and allowing his mother to receive or spend campaign funds.

Sheldon Ortego was sitting in traffic coming into town from Hawaii Kai when he got a call that his son was in a moped accident on Kalanianaole Highway on Wednesday afternoon.

Oahu’s housing market is on the brink of cracking a new 100-grand level — $700,000 — for annual median prices of single-family houses.

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We have understood for a long time that the oceans played a significant role in transferring heat from the equator to the poles, but only in recent years have we begun to understand the importance of the link between ocean and atmosphere.