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My truck was being towed from a private lot in Kapahulu, so I called the tow company’s office number and they said the truck was being taken to its facility in Campbell Industrial Park.

Question: Whatever happened to attempts to retrieve a voice recording of Hawaii King David Kala­kaua as he lay dying in a San Francisco hotel in 1891?

Ex-politician to be sentenced in rock theft • Hee kills pleas to free pot guru • Fundraising run to affect traffic

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 米国気象サービスは、週末にかけて豪雨と雷雨をもたらす可能性のある寒冷前線がハワイ諸島に近づくとして、カウアイ島とオアフ島に豪雨と豪雨による水位の急激な上昇などに対する警戒を促す「フラッシュ・フロッド・ウォッチ（鉄砲水注意報）」を発令している。　今回の注意報発令に伴い当局では、今日と明日にかけて、カウアイ島やオアフ島などが雷雨や豪雨に見舞われる可能性が高くなっているとして、洪水警戒地域などの住民に対し、浸水などに注意するよう呼びかけている。
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 ハワイ州土地自然資源局は、カリフォルニアとカナダの大学がハワイ島のマウナケア山頂への設置を検討している巨大望遠鏡の設置を承認すると発表した。　今回設置が承認された巨大望遠鏡は、口径30メートルもある世界最大級のもので、関係者は太陽以外の星を軌道にして周っている新たな惑星の観察が可能となるほか、約130億光年離れた銀河までも観察できるようになるとしている。　なお、マウナケア山はハワイ原住民にとっては聖なる場所とされており、一部のハワイ原住民らが巨大望遠鏡の設置に意義を唱えているほか、環境保護団体からも、望遠鏡の設置による山頂周辺の環境破壊を懸念する声が上がっており、当局では巨大望遠鏡の設置を承認すると同時に、プロジェクト関係者に対して、環境や文化に関する事前学習を行うよう、24以上もの項目を提示している。
参考：ホノルル・スター・アドバタイザー

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii claims the state Department of Public Safety is illegally withholding public records that attorneys representing families in wrongful prison death lawsuits have paid thousands of dollars to receive.

The United States sent its most powerful airplanes to the Korean Peninsula in recent weeks in part because it wants North Korea to know what the American military is capable of doing, the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Pacific said.

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MELBOURNE, Australia » Mark Brandon Read sat quietly drinking lemonade in a small garden behind his favorite pub, the back of his chair positioned against an aging red brick wall that afforded him a clear line of sight to all possible escape routes.

SALEM, Ore. » Some say America has been homogenized, a chain-store nation bereft of regional distinction in dialect or dinner.

A 43-story condominium will be a new addition in Kakaako as part of a development plan that also includes townhomes, a couple of restaurants and retail on the former site of a Comp­USA store.

Board of Regents members told an advisory task group conducting a study of accountability in the University of Hawaii system that there may be a disconnect between their role and the public's perception of that role, but that they understand they have to improve efforts to be more transparent.

The Kilauea Point Lighthouse on Kauai has been renamed the Daniel K. Ino­uye Kilauea Point Lighthouse.

Police are crediting the public for identifying a 23-year-old Mililani man caught on home surveillance video burglarizing a Li­liha house.

Justin Klein pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday for allegedly throwing a 31-year-old Japa­nese visitor off a cliff on Kauai's North Shore.

On the 71st anniversary of the Bataan Death March, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz introduced legislation that would restore full veterans benefits to Filipinos who volunteered to serve with U.S. armed forces and allied soldiers during World War II.

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources can continue hunting feral sheep on the slopes of Mauna Kea by helicopter despite a 2012 Hawaii County ordinance prohibiting animal eradication by air.

A fourth attack submarine will be sent to Guam and six destroyers will be shifted from duty in Europe to the Asia-Pacific as part of the re-balancing of U.S. forces that's taking place in the region, a top Pentagon official said Monday.