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Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Monday urged the Honolulu City Council to move quickly to approve a bill that would extend the 0.5 percent surcharge on the general excise tax after he made public a recent letter from a top federal transit official threatening to cut off funding for the city’s $6.57 billion rail project.

With Hawaii plagued by widespread coral bleaching for the second year in a row, state officials Monday announced plans to fight back.

Sex between a taxicab driver and a female passenger was consensual, the cabby’s lawyer insisted Monday as his trial opened in Circuit Court.

Hawaiian Electric Co. customers’ electrical bills in November will be the lowest in more than five years, as oil prices continue to pull down rates across the isles.

Gov. David Ige said Monday that he would welcome Syrian refugees to Hawaii — in contrast to more than two dozen other governors who have come out in opposition to relocating the refugees in their respective states in the wake of last week’s Paris bombings.

There’s nary a hint of winter yet in the air as Langrine tolls the bell for the Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign outside Longs Drugs in Manoa Valley, but Langrine, 74, says it’s just a matter of time.

PALAU >> In some of my favorite snorkeling spots here in Palau, I don’t have to stroke my arms or even move my fins to see vast stretches of coral reef.

Kauai police have identified a 60-year-old California man who drowned after he had difficulty swimming at Shipwreck Beach as Corey Schlossmann.

Construction is stopped on improvements to Maui Veterans Cemetery after the project was found to conflict with the National Historic Preservation Act.

Question: When will the Pearl City Public Library’s repeated air-conditioning breakdowns be corrected and the AC be fully operational? No one can borrow nonfiction books because the whole section is closed off. The staff has no clue when the work will be completed.