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Those trying to stop a Native Hawaiian election in court vowed to continue their legal fight Friday despite a judge’s decision to allow the voting of convention delegates to move forward.

The state Land Use Commission on Friday rejected a request for it to reconsider its approval of the 11,750-unit Ho‘opili project developed by D.R. Horton/Schuler Homes.

With scores of recent auto thefts linked to cracking open security-weak lockboxes, Honolulu police are urging motorists to opt for another device or method for stashing keys and valuables.

The city has been paying $154,000 a month since July to lease an empty Iwilei office building because it cannot reach agreement with a contractor for renovating it to become the new home for Oahu’s busiest driver licensing office.

West Oahu-bound drivers have endured years of lane closures, project changes and completion delays while the state has worked to ease congestion through Central Oahu.

A stolen totem pole that went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum was returned Thursday to American Indians from Alaska.

Homeless man held in shooting case • Man stabbed near Ewa Beach school • Waianae business robbed at gunpoint • Maui officer under probe in bribery case • Robbery, attack on beach lead to teens’ arrests

Mark Villaver came from the hallowed training ground where generations of Kalihi b-boys learned to dance: on the cement outside the Farrington Auditorium.

Question: There’s a low stone wall on Diamond Head Road from Beach Road to the last lookout before the residential area. Again, graffiti is cropping up.

Alice Yang served up her popular Korean-style chicken wings at Chicken Alice’s for the better part of two decades. Even after the Kapiolani Boulevard restaurant closed in 1995, old customers with a hankering for those spicy, crunchy wings would seek out “Chicken Alice” as she managed various bars from Keeaumoku Street to Kalihi.