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The Hawaii Department of Health is planning to overhaul the state’s psychiatric hospital in Kaneohe — more than doubling the number of beds and installing tighter security — in light of hundreds of reported assaults by patients against staff in recent years and a sharp increase in the number of people being committed to the facility.

Friends and co-workers were devastated Tuesday over the loss of Aulani Halemano, a popular cook at Outback Steakhouse who was killed while crossing Farrington Highway in Nanakuli on her way to work.

A federal judge on Tuesday denied the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i’s request to stop the city from using its sidewalk enforcement laws to remove the homeless from Honolulu streets.

A public charter school’s academic and financial performance for the first time will determine whether its contract with the state should be renewed when the first round of performance-based contracts expire in 2017 — a move that has some schools anxious.

Tanioka’s Seafoods & Catering and about 20 other Waipahu businesses along the rail line will get a partial reprieve from construction now that the left-turn lane into their shopping complex is back, surprisingly.

Honolulu Fire Department and Coast Guard rescue personnel searched Monday evening for an 18-year-old man who was swept out to sea near Halona Blowhole Lookout.

Medical problem, not car crash, killed Hilo man • Highway lane will be closed for construction

A Waikoloa man found slumped over in the driver’s seat of his vehicle with the motor running has been charged with drug and weapon offenses after police seized heroin, methamphetamine, pharmaceutical pills and a switchblade from the sport utility vehicle.

Question: I was in Windward Mall and passed an e-cigarette kiosk where I saw a bunch of younger people puffing away on their e-cig devices. Then I noticed that they also have a table with seats right next to the e-cig kiosk, and there were four or five more young people puffing away on their devices.

The 35-year-old stepdaughter of Duane “Dog” Chapman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of robbing a downtown Honolulu bank.