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A Hawaii island Circuit Court judge Friday afternoon invalidated the emergency rule that prohibits camping near the summit of Mauna Kea.

Truck fire closes 3 lanes of H-1 freeway • Man arrested over stabbing on Big Island • Hilo man dies after river takes him downstream

Question: A home in our neighborhood puts on an extravagant flashing light display, complete with music, every holiday season. It attracts thousands of spectators and has become a nuisance to our community due to traffic, noise, illegal parking, trespassers and litter. Can anything be done?

Mention medical marijuana and people are still reduced to the awkward giggles of high school and the overly earnest diatribes of college stoners trying to justify their lifestyle choices at 3 in the morning (also awkward, but in a different way).

Lucretia Cortez said conditions at Sunset Memorial Park have become so bad that she has not been able to find her family members’ headstones at the Pearl City cemetery.

A convicted felon on probation for two burglaries is in custody for allegedly exposing himself to minors at a public park and for attempting to pull a 10-year-old boy who saw him masturbating into a park restroom Sunday.

People whose homes are near the trailhead to Mau- nawili Falls are asking a state judge to order the state, city and the private landowner of the popular hiking trail into mediation with them to address their complaints over how hikers are negatively affecting their neighborhood.

A legal cloud hanging over a vote taken by the Honolulu City Council in 2012 is pushing current Council members to rush through a new measure to ensure the rail project doesn’t incur millions of dollars in late payments and debt.

It was the end of an era Thursday for the sometimes contentious Stryker Brigade in Hawaii, with the speedy eight-wheeled vehicles blasting away, likely for the last time, at targets at a big Schofield Barracks range ahead of an Army plan to move the vehicles out of the state to cut costs, officials said.

More taxicab drivers are headed to court to face substantial fines and/or jail time for violations since the city Customer Services Department resumed group field inspections of taxicabs — a practice that had ceased in 2013 due to staff constraints.