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The University of Hawaii's much-delayed first space flight and microsatellite delivery could be a "go" for Monday, according to its Space Flight Laboratory.

Robbie Alm has a dozen years of experience in the top management ranks of the state's largest utility, Hawaiian Electric Co ., and he has the ear of Gov. David Ige.That makes some people nervous.

As costs continue to climb, Honolulu rail remains by far the most expensive transit project per-capita being built in the U.S., a Honolulu Star-Advertiser analysis shows.

Halloween is behind us and it's time to "flASHback" on October's news that amused and confused:

U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz is spending the weekend in Maine and Boston, fundraising and offering his support and advice to some grass-roots groups that are mobilizing for the presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Honolulu Police Department opened an internal investigation this week into allegations that an officer wrongfully arrested a vacationing lesbian couple after seeing them kissing in a grocery store.

Yoshito Takamine, a longtime power in Hawaii labor and politics and one of the architects of the groundbreaking Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act, died Tuesday at home in Honokaa with his family. He was 89.

A 27-year-old Wahiawa man was arrested Thursday after he broke a 9-year-old boy's elbow, police said. The incident happened Sunday in Wahiawa.

Emergency repairs to the Wilson Tunnel are scheduled to continue through Thursday, resulting in further lane closures along Likelike Highway.

A Waianae man was sentenced Friday to one year in prison and given five years of probation for the death of his cousin in a one-car crash last year in Pearl City.