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Under pressure from lawmakers and health care advocates who accuse it of not complying with a 10-month-old law, the Hawaii Department of Health has increased the number of inspection reports it’s posted online for long-term care facilities serving seniors and the disabled.

A 10-year-old boy might have become Hawaii’s seventh and latest shark attack victim of the year Wednesday when he was bitten on the right leg about 30 feet off Makaha Surfing Beach.

A fire in the Mapunapuna industrial area caused an estimated $5.5 million in damage to businesses Tuesday night, fire officials said. But on Wednesday, an official with ABC Supply Co., which sustained most of the damage, said it could have been much worse.

Kauai County will receive more than $13 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to revitalize Lihue.

Question: Due to the recent rain, grass on most medians around Honolulu are overgrown. Who is responsible for cutting this?

The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office on Tuesday identified the 21-year-old Washington state man who died Saturday after being found in the ocean off Spitting Caves.

Nearly 70 Honolulu firefighters battled a three-alarm fire Tuesday night at a construction supply company in Mapunapuna.

A 25-year-old man told police two men placed a towel over his head and repeatedly beat him using their fists and a metal bat before one of them shot him in the face and twice in the body last month, according to court documents.

Gov. David Ige and members of his Cabinet highlighted some of the administration’s early achievements Monday night — including speeding up the use of federal dollars on transportation projects, closing on the Turtle Bay conservation deal and boosting the state’s bond rating — at a community meeting at Windward Community College in Kaneohe.

In all the discussion about the termination of University of Hawaii men’s basketball coach Gib Arnold on Tuesday at the state Capitol, football coach Norm Chow’s situation wasn’t far away.