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Maui police Friday identified the victim of a Wailuku house fire as Shiro S. Hironaka, a former leader in Hawaii's banking industry. He was 94.

Members of Hawaii's congressional delegation Friday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's decision to send U.S. special operations troops into Syria to battle the Islamic State.

Just two days after Raymond "Ray Ray" Senensi III was bitten by a 5- to 6-foot shark while bodyboarding, the 10-year-old Nanakuli boy returned to Makaha Beach Park on Friday to thank the people who rescued and treated him on shore.

A woman who played an key role in a $3 million mortgage fraud scheme and who later became a fugitive after missing a mandatory court meeting was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu to five years in prison.

Manufactured cannabis-laced fruit candy that has sickened Oahu teens in recent weeks may be touching off anxiety among parents of trick-or-treaters this Halloween.

Hawaii public school teachers will no longer be able to accept extra pay during the school year directly from private companies or institutions for work related to their jobs if a recommendation by staff of the state Ethics Commission is approved by its five-member board.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply's manager said Friday that water tested in the aquifer below the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Tank Facility is contaminated, pointing out that a monitoring well showed elevated levels of jet fuel components in April.

Man found dead inside burning house • Missing temple bell recovered from tree • Search for missing diver is suspended • Murder suspect will go to trial early next year • Police resubmit Hilo killing case to prosecutor

Question: Would you please find out whether the Board of Water Supply (and its contractor, Nan Inc.) ever plans to finish the water main project it’s doing between King Intermediate School and Heeia Kea Small Boat Harbor?

Tanya Harrison spent years researching the area that the Neal Blaisdell Center now occupies. It began as a family genealogy project, but when she came across newspaper articles from 1964 that described the newly built Blaisdell as a war memorial, she became fixated on finding out how such an important designation could have faded with time and what she could do to restore that title.