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The Honolulu Fire Department said the cause of a Nov. 3 Wahiawa blaze was undetermined and closed its investigation Friday, but there’s been no closure for one family burned out of the Olive Avenue home.

The Hokule'a arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, early Thursday morning — marking the halfway point of its worldwide voyage.

The National Marine Fisheries Service said Thursday it has authorized the Navy's proposal to expand sonar testing and other warfare training off the Northwest coast, after determining the exercises would not have major impacts on endangered orcas and other marine mammals.

Officials say a tree-killing fungus that covered more than 16,000 acres on the eastern part of Hawaii island has now been discovered in the western areas of Holualoa and Kealakekua.

A British citizen who is a legal permanent resident of the United States alleges in a lawsuit that the Honolulu Police Department discriminates against non-U.S. citizens by making it difficult for them to obtain firearm permits.

The Hokule'a arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, early Thursday morning — marking the halfway point of its worldwide voyage.

Thanks to President Barack Obama's "Every Kid in a Park" initiative, American fourth-graders have the opportunity to obtain a pass for free entry for them and their families to more than 2,000 federally managed lands and waters nationwide through August.

Police were looking for suspects after two businesses were robbed Wednesday night — one by a man wearing a Halloween mask.

The state Department of Health confirmed Thursday that another Hawaii island resident has contracted dengue fever, raising the number of locally acquired cases to 34.

Question: I wonder whether school buses have to get safety inspections. I don't see a sticker, and this bus should not be on the road.