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We all have things we say to console ourselves when people dear to us pass away.

If the deceased is of a certain age and lived a full life, it often does bring comfort to say, “He lived life on his own terms.” Or, “It’s a blessing that she didn’t suffer.”

A Honolulu City Council idea to provide property tax breaks to businesses suffering from construction of the rail project is being panned by the Caldwell administration for lacking specific details.

Toddler injured by fall from third floor • Highway closes after car hits pedestrian • Man arrested for Manoa break-in, assault

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell is leading a delegation of business, government and cultural leaders on a 10-day diplomatic and trade mission to Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

A man died Saturday in a three-alarm house fire in Makiki, but his adult daughter escaped from the burning home with the help of two neighbors.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell grew visibly frustrated as he recalled standing in front of a room filled with Oahu religious leaders and asking them to house a homeless family, but not a single one stepped up.

When you think of sweeps — sweeping changes, sweeping winds, sweeping away the detritus on the back porch — the connotation is of something that is sudden and complete. What city crews are having to do in Kakaako isn’t sudden or complete.

The state attorney general and beneficiaries of Hawaiian homelands are millions of dollars apart on how much support they believe the state should provide to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands three years after the Hawaii Supreme Court rebuked the state for years of underfunding the agency.

A “God bless the military” sign is staying up at the Marine base in Kaneohe, despite cries from a religious freedom group that the message is unconstitutional.

Fall enrollment across the University of Hawaii system dropped for a fourth-straight year — something the unversity anticipated, but said it is working to reverse.