About $83,000 in budget cuts has forced the city Neighborhood Board Commission to consider trading traditional paper ballots for online and phone-in voting in what would be the first broad paperless election in Hawai'i.

The widow of a Honolulu Fire Department helicopter pilot killed during a search-and-rescue operation 13 years ago this month wants a full accounting of the money raised in the name of her husband and two Ho-nolulu Police Department officers who also died in the crash in the Ko'olau Mountains above Sacred Falls.

More than 200 junior lifeguards from around the state will compete Saturday at the 'ewa end of Ala Moana Beach Park.