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Hawaii island police charged a 31-year-old former Oahu man Friday in connection with the theft of the top portion of a 6-foot spear stolen from the King Kamehameha statue at Wailoa State Park in Hilo on Tuesday.

Honolulu Fire Department investigators say the fire in August that burned a two-story Pauoa Valley house, killing an elderly couple, was accidental.

The percentage of adults 50 years and older in Hawaii who reported methamphetamine as their drug of choice has almost doubled over the last five years, according to a state report on substance abuse treatment services.

Hawaii’s reefs are likely to suffer widespread mortality this fall in what’s expected to be the worst episode of coral bleaching ever recorded here, scientists warned Friday.

Best Hospitality LLC has plans to build a 350-foot-tall condo hotel tower on the long-empty Kyo-ya Restaurant site, but to move forward the developer will have to get the City Council’s permission to exceed a 25-foot height limit.

The recent run of vexing weather continued Friday as heavy rain and lightning resulted in road closures, power failures, event cancellations and a host of other problems across Oahu.

Kapolei residents were on edge Friday after reports of two women being attacked in attempted rapes on neighborhood sidewalks Wednesday.

Six years ago when CBS screened the pilot of the new "Hawaii Five-0" as a Sunset on the Beach extravaganza in Waikiki, executive producer Peter Lenkov didn't take it seriously and wore jeans and a T-shirt on the red carpet that the network spread out on the sand.

Wet weather in August has alleviated severe drought conditions that plagued parts of Maui and Kauai. Ranchers who bore the brunt of the drought say the rainfall has helped greatly with grass regrowth on dry pasturelands.

Solar panels have been installed on the roof of the Gemini Observatory on Mauna Kea, becoming the highest rooftop-mounted photovoltaic system in the world connected to a utility.