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State and city officials are calling for a major overhaul of taxicab regulations, including more robust background checks and drug testing for drivers, creating a database to track arrests and revisiting the Honolulu Airport contract.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell is pressing top rail officials for more details on what’s changed in the past several months for them to declare that the project might now cost $200 million more to build and take at least another year to complete.

Driver hits tree in Kapolei, dies later at hospital • Unconscious man is plucked from water in Waikiki • Fire destroys Kona garage • Woman who fell out of car ID’d

The state Department of Health issued a brown-water advisory for Waimanalo Beach Park on Wednesday, advising the public to avoid floodwater and stormwater runoff due to possible overflows of wastewater, pesticide and other flood debris.

Question: I live in Kaimuki and was hoping to expand my driveway in the front of my house. The problem is there’s a water meter on the sidewalk right in the middle of where the expanded driveway would cross.

Sandwich Isles Communications Inc. is planning a corporate restructuring that will remove owner Al Hee from “any management responsibilities or involvement” with the company in the wake of Hee’s convictions this summer on federal tax charges, the Hawaiian Homes Commission was told Tuesday.

President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders arrived in Hawaii on Tuesday for the first time on a mission to better understand issues facing the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.

A federal judge sentenced two people Tuesday to 30 months and 46 months in prison for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved seven properties in Honolulu and Kona — a case that prompted an FBI manhunt this summer for an East Honolulu woman who is the third defendant and is still facing sentencing.

The gunpoint robbery Monday of a soccer mom who was waiting in her car while her daughter practiced at Kapiolani Park has parents and their children on alert to avoid being victimized.

The University of Hawaii is moving ahead with plans to lease more than 150 acres of vacant land next to the UH-West Oahu campus for mixed-use development to help support the growing Kapolei university.