Saturday, January 28, 2012
As school bus costs rise, so do lawmakers' concerns
Lawmakers quizzed state education officials Friday on what they are doing to rein in rising student transportation costs, while considering the agency's $42 million request to preserve bus service on Oahu and the neighbor islands for the coming school year.
Idaho company pays $13 million for Big Island Dairy
An Idaho dairyman has bought the largest dairy in the state with plans to continue expanding the Hawaii island company that supplies fresh milk statewide. The Big Island Dairy farm, with about 900 milking cows, was bought for about $13 million, according to a DLNR report.
Basketball: Rainbows, Idaho match up evenly
The offenses of the Hawaii and Idaho basketball teams are predicated upon the fact that good things come with three primary scoring options. The Rainbow Warriors and Vandals face off at the Cowan Spectrum today to figure out whose trifecta of talent stands taller.
Church grows into community
Making the teachings of Jesus relevant to the daily challenges of raising young families has fueled the tremendous growth of New Hope Leeward, says senior Pastor Mike Lwin. The evangelical church has long outgrown its space and is searching for other accommodations.
The $35 million sale of the defunct Hawaii Superferries Alakai and Huakai by the U.S. Maritime Administration to the U.S. Navy, finalized last week, raised the possibility that one of the blue-and-white high-speed vessels could return to Hawaii in battleship gray. Story »
State lawmakers want to avert an unemployment insurance tax increase on businesses by March, but there is growing recognition that previous tax breaks were likely mistakes that helped drain a reserve meant to cover surges in unemployment. Story »
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- Sports Extras: AFC-NFC Hickam Practice [Part 3]
- Island Images: January 2012 [Part 2]
- Page One Collection: Jan 2012 [Part 2]
- Sports Extras: AFC-NFC Hickam Practice [Part 2]
- Sports Extras: AFC-NFC Hickam Practice [Part 1]
- Sports Extra: Pro Bowl AFC / NFC practice
- Chinese New Year around the world
- Sports Extra: UH Rainbow Warriors vs New Mexico State
- Sports Extra: UH Wahine vs New Mexico State
- OIA Boys Varsity Paddling race
- MMA fight event
- Island Images: ILH basketball, Iolani vs Kamehameha
- Island Images: ILH outrigger canoe paddling
- Sports Extras: Friday Night H.S. Basketball
Ben Vereen is a star because of the immense accomplishments of his youth. His turns on Broadway musicals, in "Hair," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Pippin," and television, in "Roots," left an unforgettable impression. Story »
Hawaii has had a long relationship with Chinese aviation, beginning with the first pilot's license in the islands being issued to a local Chinese-American, and when the Pacific Aviation Museum opened in Pearl Harbor, it chose as its logo the image of the "Flying Tigers." Story »
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SHANGHAI » Those initiated in the cult of xiao long bao think nothing of traveling thousands of miles across the Pacific in search of the perfect dumpling. It's a pilgrimage of sorts. Something that has to be done at least once, but preferably several times, before you die.
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In the brutal world of online commerce, where a competing product is just a click away, retailers need all the juice they can get to close a sale.
WASHINGTON » Newt Gingrich had an urgent warning for conservatives: Jim Wright, the Democratic speaker of the House, was out to destroy America.
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