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An Oahu grand jury Monday indicted a 41-year-old career criminal for first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer for allegedly choking a police officer and trying to take the officer’s handgun last week.

A recent spike in thefts of vehicles with security-weak lockboxes is prompting the Honolulu Police Department to advise drivers to carry their keys with them rather than relying on the device for safekeeping.

The cries against the use of pesticides and genetically modified crops in Hawaii have been vehement, strident and, at times, overwrought.

A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control will visit Hawaii island next week to assess the development of the dengue fever outbreak and review state and county efforts to contain the spread of the virus, Hawaii County Civil Defense Administrator Darryl Oliveira said Tuesday night.

Black Friday shopping was upstaged in recent years by retail heavyweights opening the day before, on Thanksgiving, now referred to by some as Thanksgetting Day. But why wait even for Thanksgiving?

Hawaii’s rooftop solar industry, already struggling with a recent reduction in an incentive program, could come to a standstill next year.

Three dogs and a cat became the first animals to be cleared for the new Sand Island transitional shelter Tuesday as the city tries to make it easier to get homeless pet owners off the street.

Japan's defense minister has arrived in Hawaii to meet senior U.S. military officials this week. Defense Minister Gen Nakatani laid a wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial on Monday and was given a tour of a ballistic missile defense radar system and a guided missile cruiser at Pearl Harbor.

A 32-year-old Maui woman was charged Monday with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man. Taliah Nelson of Wailuku was being held on $1 million bail.

Kauai police officials are warning the public to be on the lookout for fake $100 bills with red Chinese markings being used to buy merchandise. Kauai police said they've recovered several fake bills.