Lawmakers in the House want to abolish the Hawaii Health Systems Corp. and temporarily move the 13 public hospitals back to the state Health Department -- a move Health Director Chiyome Fukino says would be "catastrophic."
The Legislature is on the verge of carving Maui Memorial Medical Center out of the state Hawaii Health Systems Corp.
No cases of the swine flu have been reported here in Hawaii, but health officials are asking doctors to send virus specimens from patients showing flu symptoms to the state lab for testing.
There's a shake-up at the state Sheriff Division. On Friday, word quickly spread that Hawaii's sheriff has been bounced from his post.
In what one survivor described as a "miracle," 11 sailors aboard a traditional Chinese sailing vessel that left Oahu in February were plucked from the Pacific hours after a freighter struck their vessel, slicing it in half.
Faced with increasingly dismal revenue projections, Hawaii County councilmembers have started using the "F" word again.
In the wake of a Makiki Heights house fire that left two people dead and four homeless, advocates are raising concerns about the number of people crowding into homes — in what they say is a trend that appears to be worsening because of the recession.
Reef-protection groups are awaiting approval of federal permits to install 52 day-use mooring buoys in a continuing effort to reduce the damage caused when boat anchors crush fragile coral colonies and destroy large swaths of underwater habitat.
A spike in the number of people giving up their pets is putting a strain on the Hawaii Island Humane Society
Ohio mom who left toddler alone 10 days gets life sentence
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CLEVELAND >> An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being
left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on
vacation ...
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