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MAKAKILO, Hawaii (Island News) – The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) extinguished a building fire reported early Monday morning at a home in Makakilo. The fire was reported near Nenelea St., with first responders finding heavy smoke and flames coming from a two-story residential building at 4:31 a.m. Firefighters initia

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - One of three suspects accused of making and depositing $1.2 million in fraudulent checks appeared in court Monday. Baron Yamabe, 75, pleaded not guilty to 54 counts of Forgery, Theft, and Attempted Theft. According to the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, the alleged crimes took place from Ju

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A man is reported in serious condition after he was pinned inside a vehicle in a rollover crash in Kalihi early Monday. The Honolulu Fire Department said first responders were called to the intersection of Olomea and Kohou streets at about 5:17 a.m. Rescue crews found a...

Veteran bar owner Bill Comerford has been planning his Irish goodbye for years. Comerford has spent his lifetime in bars, and he's owned many of Oʻahu's Irish pubs in a career that stretches nearly three decades. One of those mainstay bars will be changing hands, now that Comerford made...

Another controversial kauhale project is under construction, this one in Waimānalo, stirring fear and suspicion among some of the Native Hawaiian residents affected by it. Gov. Josh Green’s signature initiative in office has been championing a string of speedy, pop-up construction projects to house the homeless. He is

Prisoners with severe medical conditions can be granted compassionate release, but without a long-term care facility willing to accept them, many continue to wait in prison as their conditions worsen.

For more than a year after a portion of Waikīkī’s popular beachside walkway collapsed into the sand, Barefoot Beach Cafe customers looking to drink out of pineapples as they watched the sunset had to do so through a chain-link fence. Civil Beat wrote about the walkway in...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Police Department is investigating an armed robbery in the first degree that took place at a convenience store in the Kalihi area on Monday. Police said at about 1:24 a.m., the suspect entered a convenience store, brandishing a handgun, demanded property, and fled the scene...

Gonzales was killed in action on Friday during an Iranian strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, the Pentagon said.

East Oahu commuters woke up to a headache on Saturday as a 16-inch water main burst before dawn, shutting down two westbound lanes of Kalanianaole Highway and cutting water service to dozens of nearby homes. According to Hawaii News Now, the main break was reported around 3:45 a.m. near Kalanianaole...