Honolulu News

Mayor Caldwell is winding down his public town-hall meetings campaign. The meetings are designed to update the public on the progress of the Mayor's major first-year initiatives: repaving the roads, getting TheBus routes restored, making the city's parks beautiful, fixing Honolulu's sewer infrastructure, building rail better and, most recently, ... (more)

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Honolulu police examine the accident scene of a crash on the Pali Highway this morning.

Hurricane Daniel near peak intensity on July 7, 2012. At the time of this image, sustained winds were near 105 mph.

What do Bishop Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art and 'Iolani Palace have in common? One steal-of-a-deal price for a cultural safari during Memorial Day weekend.

It's destined to be both the most popular and least popular movie in the 24th Annual Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival this year.

"We are selves in a world because we have words," writes the late poet Tony Quagliano in the preface of his book, Language Matters .

In a small, new study, reported online in the American Journal of Medical Quality , the researchers found that an ICU patient who develops an avoidable central line-associated bloodstream infection costs nearly three times more to care for than a similar infection-free patient.

A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains of Oahu.

Brian Schatz said. Schatz met for the first time Thursday with Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, who is poised to replace Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

21. Chung, who turned 50 only a month before the incident, got the chance to publicly thank his seven co-workers during a ceremony Monday at City Hall, where they were honored by Mayor Kirk Caldwell and the city Department of Emergency Services with the 2013 EMS Lifesaver Award.

ASM Research, a leading provider of information technology solutions, opened a new office in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 1, 2013.

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey stands below flags of Japan and the U.S. as he talks to U.S. military personnel stationed at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on April 25, 2013.

The Howard Hughes Corp. plans to redevelop the block at 404 Ward Ave. in Kakaako, including the two-story building shown here, into a 415-unit residential tower with commercial space and parking, the first project in its Ward Village master plan.

The City and County of Honolulu is planning to conduct a study on fare collection for TheBus and TheHandi-Van services as well as the city's rail transit project.

Hilo is at the end of the line but is finally about to get a full serving of Hawaii Public Radio.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie will sign two significant traffic safety bills into law Monday, one requiring all front- and back-seat occupants of a vehicle to buckle up, his office announced.

There's a moment, when you arrive at the parking spot in which your vehicle is not, during which you assume you've made a mistake.

When Manifest opened in 2009, in the former space of a risqu bookstore, the bar carried just one bourbon, Jameson, two gins, and at least 15 vodkas, many of them flavored.

The staff at Kaimuki High School will be honored Sunday at ceremonies where Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell presents the city's Civilian Lifesaver Awards.