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State land officials are touting their latest efforts to shield Oahu residents and their homes from potential rockfalls, with a new protective fence going up on the hillside below the popular Lanikai pillbox trail.

Another Hawaii-based military leader has stepped up the rhetoric against China’s island-building and territorial claims in the South China Sea, this time ahead of what could be a bolder U.S. military demonstration of air and sea navigation rights through the area.

The completion this month of steel framing for the International Market Place puts the redevelopment on track to reopen in August, creating jobs for an anticipated 2,500 employees and contract workers.

Fourteen Honolulu homes purchased for more than $2 million apiece last month helped Hawaii’s main housing market break another record.

A 55-year-old Nuuanu man attempted twice to run down a 39-year-old homeless man with a car in Kakaako on Saturday, according to court documents.

Usually when a guy is standing on the side of a busy roadway holding a sign, he’s selling something or asking for donations. Sometimes he’s promoting a blow-out mattress sale (whatever that means) or a benefit car wash nearby.

Kailua resident Greg Turnbull sent a picture of a freshly dead, 36-inch-long fish he found on Kailua Beach during a recent dawn walk.

A mother and infant escaped serious injury Monday when they were swept away by fast-rising water while hiking the Maunawili Falls Trail.

A section of Eiwa Street adjacent to the Hardy Street intersection in Lihue will be closed today for repaving to convert the road into a transit mall.

Question: A while ago we were all informed (warned) about the pending repaving of South Beretania Street from University Avenue to Alapai Street or thereabouts. After some work on the bus pads, nothing has been happening for quite a few months. What is the status of the repaving?