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Mayor Rick Blangiardi was speaking for an angry public when he made Joe Logan retire as police chief. Honolulu Police Chief ...

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Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and ...

Moku‘ula, the royal compound where Native Hawaiian nobility resided for centuries, is buried beneath the burned remnants of a ...

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Honolulu City Council approved a payout to the United Public Workers to resolve a dozen disputes over garbage collector pay.

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