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A neighbor helped a woman and her two young children escape from the second floor of a burning two-story Wahiawa house Tuesday morning while four other residents made their way out.

Another case of dengue fever was confirmed on Hawaii island Tuesday, bringing the number of locally transmitted cases to 11.

Waialua’s Paalaa Kai Bakery is scheduled to reopen today after it passed a health inspection.

Travelers in air-travel-dependent Hawaii can now apply for faster, easier security checks at a new kiosk at Honolulu Airport.

County and state election officials advocated for major voting reforms — including all-mail elections and automatic voter registration — during a joint legislative briefing Tuesday at the state Capitol that included members of the Senate Judiciary and Labor and House Judiciary committees.

The state Department of Education has received a final shipment of 100 portable air conditioners that officials say will go into five West Oahu schools as part of an ongoing effort to cool more classrooms.

What does it mean to live the Hawaii Dream anymore?

When the flatlands on Maui were developed in the 1960s, the little houses were called “Dream City,” because that’s where sugar workers could finally move out of plantation houses into homes of their own.

A 67-foot military-funded rocket that blasted off a rail launcher at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at sunset Tuesday in Hawaii’s first satellite launch failed shortly after takeoff.

U.S. Rep. Mark Takai’s doctors have confirmed he has pancreatic cancer, and the congressman will undergo surgery at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., next week to remove a tumor in his pancreas.

Even as Wahiawa’s homeless count appears to have doubled over the past 11 months, state Rep. Marcus Oshiro maintains that efforts underway could serve as a template for other rural communities struggling to address island homelessness.