The USS Greeneville, the fast-attack submarine involved in a deadly collision with the fishing vessel Ehime Maru in 2001, is headed back to Pearl Harbor.Dozens of Navy divers and SEALs hauled tires, a commercial kitchen sink and other junk out of Honolulu Harbor yesterday in celebration of World Ocean Day.
State Board of Education members appeared ready yesterday to pass a 76 percent increase in the price of public school lunches.
Public school students may have to shell out $2.20 for a hot lunch beginning in January under a proposal currently making its way through the state Board of Education.
Some Hawaii public schools are aggressively competing for students in the geographic exception program to help gain funding.
State education officials are disputing methodology used in new research that places Hawai'i's public schools in the bottom third in the country when comparing graduation rates state-by-state.
Under a federal program, 57 public schools will be offering free meals to students over the summer, the state Department of Education said.
Experts at the Lincoln presidential library confirmed yesterday that an important document tied to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is in the Hawai'i State Archives, but they don't know for sure how it got there.
Even during the Civil War, the greatest calamity to befall the nation, the wheels of bureaucracy ground slowly but surely. It required President Abraham Lincoln to write hundreds of letters and sign thousands of official statements.
The proposed addition of the Thirty Meter Telescope Project atop Mauna Kea is moving closer to reality.
The state of Hawai'i spent more than $112,000 to provide office space for Hawai'i companies at a Beijing technology park for nearly three years — but no businesses used the space.
Maui residential real estate sales were better in May than in April, although still not much more than half as much as in May 2008.
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