The city agency tasked with helping at-risk families and individuals in need of low-income housing, job training, or battling homelessness, also plans to grow beyond its existing Iwilei area offices.

Michael Poda, 34, served as a band teacher at Schofield Middle School for the last two years before he was arrested and charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

A Pickens County 7th grader has died from group B bacterial meningitis.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Nearly seven months after a fireworks tragedy struck in Aliamanu on New Year’s Eve, Hawaii has new laws addressing concerns of illegal fireworks.

Hawaii’s governor and a top state law enforcement official shot off a warning to illegal fireworks users Monday, four days before the Fourth of July, announcing two new laws that took effect today.