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The Mayor’s Memorial Day Ceremony will begin Monday at 8:30 a.m. at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

A rare study on the impact of industrial fishing on open-ocean food supplies has found that the Hawaiian petrel, a crow-sized oceanic bird that flies above the northeast Pacific, isn’t eating nearly as well as it used to.

Even though the city is settling a police brutality lawsuit for $35,000, the Hono­lulu Police Department will not disclose whether any of the officers involved were disciplined.

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　オアフ島カイルア地区で昨年中止となっていた独立記念日恒例の花火の打ち上げが、今年は実施されることが明らかになった。カイルア地区の独立記念花火は過去60年間にわたって開催されていたものの、昨年は経費不足などを理由に打ち上げが中止となっていた。　関係者は、花火の打ち上げには5月31日までに56,000ドルの経費が必要となっていたものの、昨日の時点で地元の慈善家が25,000ドルの寄付を行うと発表したほか、すでに地元の企業や一般住民からの寄付金が31,000ドルほど集まっており、花火打ち上げに必要な経費を確保することができたとしている。
参考：ハワイ・ニュース・ナウ

　オアフ島のアラモアナ・ビーチパークで昨日、今回で15回目となる灯篭流しイベントが開催され、数万人の市民が参加し、6,000個以上の灯篭が海に流された。　1999年より実施されている灯篭流しは、メモリアルデーの祝日に世界平和や故人へのメッセージなどをこめて行われているもので、毎年多くの市民が参加している。なお、海に流された灯篭は全て回収され、来年度に再利用される。
参考：ハワイ・ニュース・ナウ

Say goodbye to that $500 deductible insurance plan and the $20 co-payment for a doctor's office visit. They are likely to become luxuries of the past.

On the shoreline of Hawaii's most famous beach, a decaying structure attracts little attention from wandering tourists.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. » The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he and his fellow Marines raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945.

Some 3,500 residents living with disabilities rely on well-maintained Handi-Vans to get around Oahu every day, but a spate of challenges to the city’s bid requests for new vehicles has prevented the replacement of dilapidated vans for more than two years.

The five largest U.S. mortgage lenders say they have lightened the mortgage debt load for Hawaii borrowers to the tune of $176 million in a little more than a year as part of a national foreclosure abuse settlement.

The phrase “only in Hawaii” is heard frequently enough to suggest that people here can have extraordinary lives. Such was the case for Joseph Hau‘oli Dowson Sr., whose life included major accomplishments in two completely unrelated careers: law enforcement and art.

While it’s not yet June, you may catch two special astronomy events today.

The Hawaii GOP got a rare turn in the spotlight but wilted in the glare as we “flASHback” on the week’s news that amused and confused:

Each Sunday, the Star-Advertiser publishes Oahu vital statistics for marriage licenses, civil unions and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health's Vital Statistics System. They cover the five-business-day period ending the Thursday of the previous week.

Volunteers build playground in Kailua • Diver who disappeared is found on Niihau • Problems could delay opening of UH-Hilo dorm

The big Hawaii Army National Guard Chinook helicopter glided over tree canopies and deep ravines that rose and fell over large swaths of undeveloped land between Schofield Barracks' East Range and a wind farm on the North Shore.

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is asking the public's help in tracking a large piece of marine debris that may be floating in waters off the Windward Coast of Oahu.

The state land department reminds boaters and other recreational users that the alcohol ban at the Ahu o Laka sandbar in Kaneohe Bay will take effect today and will be enforced through Monday.