No sooner had Honolulu Police set up a noon sobriety checkpoint at Ala Moana Beach Park yesterday than a dozen officers began scribbling citations.

Jerry Coffee remembers the first time he saw John McCain, a fellow Navy pilot, inside what American prisoners of war mockingly called the Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam.

Plans to build the largest wind farm in the state on Lana'i are part of a vision to make the island a model of renewable energy, but the project is encountering some headwinds in the form of community concern.