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Authorities from the FBI and the Army Criminal Investigation Command arrested a 36-year-old Army medic after a grand jury indicted him Wednesday on charges he planned and assisted in his wife’s murder.

A scheduled closed-door meeting of the Honolulu Ethics Commission was canceled abruptly Tuesday — hours before it was to take place — after the state Office of Information Practices issued an informal opinion that called into question the validity of the meeting’s agenda.

After failing in September to halt city sweeps of homeless encampments, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii now wants a federal judge to prevent the immediate destruction of homeless individuals’ property that city workers pick up.

Hawaii County police have arrested the parents of a missing boy, Peter Kema Jr., on drug and weapons offenses after serving a search warrant at their home in connection with a welfare fraud investigation.

Paul O’Leary said he usually swims a few times a week at Hawaii island’s Kehena Beach, but that routine was interrupted Tuesday morning when he felt something scrape his right foot.

A growing number of students are earning undergraduate degrees within four years from the University of Hawaii’s flagship Manoa campus, an improvement university officials attribute to better academic support.

News of the dengue fever outbreak on Hawaii island has triggered unpleasant memories for J. Kalani English, who was clobbered with the illness back in 2001.

Because of extensive damage caused by a warehouse fire in Mapunapuna on Oct. 27, fire investigators said they could not determine the exact origin of the fire or the manner in which it began.

A 34-year-old Napili man died Monday night after being thrown from his Jeep Wrangler in a single-vehicle crash on Maui’s Honoapiilani Highway, police said.

Question: The state should be telling people to get rid of old tires, to empty and cover rubbish cans and to clear out foliage, especially during the rainy season.