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HONOLULU (Island News) – An indictment has been announced by Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm against the man accused of fatally shooting a woman and injuring a teenager in Kapolei. Shaison Laupola, 36, was indicted in connection with a shooting in Kapolei that resulted in the death of 26-year-old...

54 year old David Pukahi was last seen in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 6, 2015. He was last seen being assaulted and kidnapped by two male friends. At 1:10 pm on April 6, 2015, David Pukahi was seen with two male friends on Emerson Road in Honolulu, Hawaii. Witnesses report...

State health officials have slapped the owner of Hale Lehua Carehome in Honolulu with a formal Notice of Violation and Order, saying the facility allegedly fell short of Hawaiʻi’s adult residential care rules. The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health’s Office of Health Care Assurance said it issued a...

Bon Appétit just named this Honolulu hot spot as one of its Best New Restaurants in the U.S. for 2025, placing a Chinatown spot among only twenty restaurants selected nationwide. It is the first Hawaii restaurant to make the list since Lineage earned the honor in 2019, and the first Oahu restaurant to land there in...

Pretty, smart, kind and full of talent — Allison “Allie” Chu’s got it all. But there’s so much more to this local beauty than meets the eye. Currently, you can find her in the Hallmark movie Sisterhood, Inc. streaming on Netflix, or on re-runs of Rescue: HI-Surf, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. and Hawai‘i Five-0. As a model,...

Waikīkī is about to get a lot more theatrical at dinnertime. Le Petit Chef, billed as the world’s smallest and most dramatic cook, lands at Romer House Waikīkī’s 855‑ALOHA next Monday for an exclusive run in the Garden Room. The experience is part multi‑sensory dinner, part tech‑driven theater, with high‑definition...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Fire Department responded to Lanikai Pillbox to rescue a hiker on Wednesday. HFD said they responded to 275 Kaelepulu Dr. around 8:36 a.m. Authorities said they airlifted a woman in her 30s who had rolled her ankle and then transferred care to Emergency Medical Services.

Multiple residents have been displaced from their home in Waianae after the building caught flames in an early morning fire.

Launching Namahana School on Kauaʻi’s North Shore is Kapua Lililehua Chandler’s kuleana and passion. “My mission was to come home (after graduate school) and contribute to community,” Chandler says. Since the school’s opening last August, students from the Haleléa and Koʻolau districts won’t have to commute...

Some Honolulu patients are finding an unpleasant surprise on their medical bills: tax charges that appear to be calculated on the full sticker price of care, instead of what insurers actually pay. The dollar amounts are often relatively small, a few dozen bucks here and there, but the mistakes are real, can take...