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Next month will mark a year of "extreme drought" conditions, and Hawaii has become the driest state in the nation, according to the National Weather Service.

Word of Life Academy has been the educational answer for Wai Lyau and her son. "As soon as I gave birth, I said, 'He's going to Word of Life Academy,'" said 2006 Word of Life graduate Lyau of Kaimuki.

Kaname Harada, a Japanese Zero fighter pilot who downed five U.S. torpedo planes during the Battle of Midway 68 years ago, believes "war is a horrible thing."

Summer school tuition will increase 18.75 percent next summer, a jump that state officials say will help save summer classes.

State lawmakers plan to reintroduce legislation next year to require the state to pay for one-way tickets to send homeless persons back to their home states to be reunited with family.

Ken O'Keefe, a former Hawaii resident who was held in Israel after being seized in a raid of boats carrying aid to Gaza, had been released and was in Turkey yesterday, his mother said.

Who takes care of John Does burial-wise? Is it a government matter? Consequently, do the citizens of the state bear the costs?

It happened again. Another candidate for office is struggling to reconcile misleading statements he made about his record in the military. This time, it is Rep. Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois running for the Senate.

The former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to try to limit injuries when it moved against Tiananmen Square protesters 21 years ago but told it to be ready to "shed some blood" if necessary, according to an unpublished diary said to document internal decisions that led to the violent crackdown.

Everyone who met Charlie Wedemeyer and his wife, Lucy, left with a story they could tell to their family and friends. Perhaps that was his greatest legacy.

Teachers and community members pleaded yesterday with the state Board of Education to drop a proposal to close Haleiwa Elementary School.

A list of 27 candidates seeking to fill the seven-month vacancy on the City Council for the Waikiki-East Oahu district has been whittled to six, with Honolulu attorney Jonathan Lai at the top of the list.

From different corners of the world, the last three Hawaiian god or "Ku" statues known to exist have been brought together at Bishop Museum—two of them after an absence of more than 160 years.

Planning on a 50-acre regional park in Nanakuli can begin after a City Council committee reversed action on a measure allowing for the development.

Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Chaves, who took the Hawaii Army National Guard's 29th Brigade Combat Team to Iraq six years ago, has been named deputy commander of the U.S. Army Pacific for the National Guard.

The federal government plans to spend several million dollars restoring a historic seaplane hangar that played a key role in the Battle of Midway during World War II.