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Rock salt is a mineral, halite. It occurs in massive underground deposits on all continents. In its pure form it is sodium chloride, a crystalline substance composed of equal numbers of sodium and chlorine atoms.

Question: What is going on at Waialae Beach Park? The restrooms have been closed for a few months, the sand is piled in a mound and the parking lot is in disarray. Please kokua with some information.

Sometimes, when the wind is right and the stadium is almost empty, Jimmy Hutcherson’s voice can be heard all through Hawaii Kai. “Oh, the people who live in the Esplanade really get it bad, bless their hearts,” he said.

James R. Brandon, a pioneering University of Hawaii drama professor-director who translated classic Kabuki theater and made it accessible to English-speaking audiences, died Sept. 19 under hospice care in Honolulu. He was 88.

A federal judge sentenced a former executive director of the Hawaii Center for Independent Living to 21 months in prison Thursday for embezzling nearly $180,000 in federal grant money from the now-defunct nonprofit organization, which provided services to people with disabilities.

Alan Jones was fatally struck by a pickup truck Wednesday night on Nimitz Highway in Iwilei, just a block from the homeless shelter where he was staying. Residents of the Institute for Human Services, a shelter on Sumner Street where Jones was staying, identified him.

Two Schofield Barracks soldiers, one of whom was hit on the head by a store owner, were caught on surveillance tape robbing a Wahiawa market at gunpoint Sunday night, according to court documents.

Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 Raptor fighters have been sent to the Middle East on their first operational deployment, the Pentagon said Thursday.

The planned revival of the shuttered Coco Palms Resort on Kauai is back on track after the county approved demolition permits for the famous resort.

Workers are almost done building the rail system’s Pearl City-based high-tech operations center — a milestone that rail leaders touted Thursday — but the deal for the city to own the land under that site still isn’t done and at least one key rail official is concerned about how that might affect the project.