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The federal government is withholding $8 million — or all of the 2015 fiscal year funding that’s earmarked for repairing Hawaii’s drinking water infrastructure — because the Hawaii Department of Health continues to do a poor job of spending federal funds, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The cost of a parking ticket and other traffic violations on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus would significantly increase next summer under a proposal that would bring campus fines in line with citations from Honolulu police and state sheriff’s deputies.

Hawaii still ranked No. 2 in the nation in fiscal 2014 among states with the greatest military spending as a percentage of gross domestic product, but those expenditures slipped to $7.6 billion in 2014 from $8.1 billion the previous year, the Department of Defense said in a new report.

Speed likely a factor in motorcycle crash • Rescuers spend night with stranded hikers • Divers rescued after boat engine fails

HILO >> Hawaii wildlife officials say Hawaii’s native crow, the alala, could be reintroduced to the wild as early as next year.

A 20-year-old Waipahu man accused of stealing more than $60,000 worth of goods from five jewelry stores and a pawnshop is scheduled to enter a plea today.

Tropical Storm Niala continued to move away from the state Sunday, but wet and windy weather remains in Hawaii’s immediate forecast.

Luz Viray laid a pair of boots at the base of the Lady Columbia statue at Punchbowl on Sunday in memory of her son, Don, who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan three years ago.

From the block-by-block clearing in Kakaako makai to the installing of a major fence along Kapalama Canal, the landscape is changing quickly for Honolulu’s homeless.

The tofu business became a way of life for Dennis and Dulcie Honda.

Their Wahiawa establishment on Mango Street stirs up memories of the days that Dennis Honda’s father, Haruo, ran Honda Tofu and delivered blocks of the staple to neighbors in his yellow Jeep.