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Fourteen years ago quarterback Nick Rolovich was summoned from the bench to replace the injured Tim Chang and rallied a struggling University of Hawaii football team to eight victories in its final nine games, including a record-setting upset of ninth-ranked Brigham Young.

University of Hawaii Board of Regents Chairman Randy Moore and his wife, Lynne Johnson, have donated $500,000 to establish an endowment fund that will support UH-Manoa’s Music Department.

Is the Native Hawaiian election known as Na‘i Aupuni in trouble? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued an order Friday blocking the counting and certification of election votes pending a further order by Kennedy or the court.

Police investigating gunpoint robbery • Mentally ill woman accused in fatal stabbing

Oldest albatross is back at Midway Atoll • DLNR needs help with albatrosses on Garden Isle

Can you please find out how many people are employees of HART and the range of their salaries? The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation employs 108 people, whose monthly salaries range from $2,406 to $21,437. These figures include only people who work directly for HART.

Away from the crowds but not too far away. Clear water and white sand. The texture of all those beautifully weathered boards. The Makai Research Pier near Waimanalo has become a popular place for senior portraits, modeling shoots, even wedding photography.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded grants to Hawaii nonprofits to help restore Nanakuli wetlands and to teach students about East Oahu watersheds, officials announced this month.

Police detained and brought a man to an Oahu hospital for mental evaluation Thursday after a fire engulfed an auto body shop in Wahiawa. The blaze that hit Jetso Auto Center started at about 3:30 p.m. in an industrial enclave in the 300 block of Palm Street, according to fire officials.

Mosese Langi drove down the back roads of Kakaako and Iwilei with some 60 plates of Thanksgiving Day food with him, calling out, “Anybody home? We got some food!”