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Question: We keep hearing about income inequality. Who are the 1 percent?

The man who was seriously injured Saturday night off Waikiki Beach was likely bitten by an eel and not a shark, Ocean Safety officials said Sunday.

Olaf intensified into a Category 2 hurricane Sunday and continues to gather strength as it moves toward the Central Pacific Ocean and closer to Hawaii waters.

Over a career with the U.S. Foreign Service that spanned four decades, Alvin Adams made his influence felt in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America and the Caribbean. He continued his itinerant ways in retirement with busy stops in New York, Hawaii, Argentina and Oregon.

People aren’t the only ones hot and bothered by this crazy El Nino weather. Fact is, some of Hawaii’s critters are just a little bit off kilter right now, while others face a possible life-or-death struggle.

Karin Paalman lives on the slopes of Manoa Valley, up a zigzagging road, far from a bus stop and impossible for her to reach on foot since cancer started taking its toll last summer.

For the first time in a decade, the state’s public housing office will begin handing out Section 8 vouchers to individuals and families living on Oahu. However, demand is forecast to greatly outstrip available housing units because of the island’s tight housing market and the reluctance of landlords to accept low-income tenants.

There’s still six weeks to go, but the 2015 Central Pacific hurricane season is already one for the record books.

Marine Cpl. Ricardo Hernandez had never flown on a C-130 Hercules, the aircraft used by the Marine Corps primarily for refueling, and didn’t know what to expect for his first flight, especially on Fat Albert, the Navy’s propeller-driven addition to the Blue Angels team.

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres once said that if a problem has no solution, then it’s no longer a problem, but a fact.