Pearl City News

While most people enjoyed their day home gathered with the family for a turkey feast, many people spent their day shopping or in line for the Black Friday deals.

Two vaults holding urns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl are closed for construction through the holidays.

Consumer spending has declined significantly this year, but it hasn't shown up so far in the amount of vacant retail space on O'ahu. Empty retail space this year is projected to stand at 3.47 percent, up only slightly from 3.23 percent at the end of last year, according to a new survey by local commercial real estate firm Colliers Monroe ...

Imagine an elevated concrete train viaduct rising from abandoned sugarcane fields just east of Kapolei and barreling through Waipahu, Pearl City and a Aiea, past Pearl Harbor and the airport and into downtown.

TheBus is keeping its schedule the same on Furlough Fridays because it's too early to tell what impact furloughs for public school teachers and state workers are having on bus ridership and whether adjustments are needed, said Oahu Transit Services President Roger Morton.

Momilani Elementary in Pearl City, Royal Elementary near Punchbowl and 'Ewa Beach Elementary were named Blue Ribbon Schools yesterday by the state Department of Education at the Hawaii Distinguished Schools awards.

In 1987, Gentry Cos. agreed to buy about 3,700 acres of land at Waiawa Ridge from Kamehameha Schools.

The Honolulu Police Commission is setting the timetable to select the next chief of police.The members hope to have someone selected to replace the former chief Boise Correa by Thanksgiving.

Residents of a Pearl City townhouse that caught fire shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday are safe, authorities said.

An early morning bedroom fire in Pearl City this morning caused more than $50,000 damage to the building and $3,000 to the contents, according to firefighters.

Burgeoning artists, along with their families and supporters, filled Kapolei Hale's courtyard last night as 10 students were presented with 2009 Leeward Young Artist Awards.

Honolulu police defended three officers who fired shots at an auto-theft suspect cornered in a stolen Dodge Durango at a KFC drive-through in Waikele on Tuesday afternoon.

Police homicide and Internal Affairs officers are continuing their investigation today into the police shooting in Waikele of an auto theft suspect who remained hospitalized last night.

Police shot a 23-year-old man who they say attempted to run over officers with a suspected stolen car at the KFC restaurant in Waikele early Tuesday afternoon.

Police shot and critically injured a car-theft suspect who allegedly injured two officers as he tried to escape by ramming his way out of the drive-through line at the Waikele Center KFC.

With so much to see and do, Las Vegas will always be a great place to visit. After all, Hawaii residents still fondly call it the ninth island.

Paul Yan Ming Mark, a musician known for fusing Western and Asian styles, died Oct.

Pearl Highlands Center is located on Kamehameha Highway, directly across from Home Depot.

Students can get a jump-start on a career in education without leaving their island home and be a part of a growing population of students enrolling in Leeward Community College's Associate of Arts in Teaching degree program.

Just Tacos Grill & Cantina has been added to the lineup of the neighborhood retail center being developed at Ko Olina Resort & Marina in West Oahu.