A California woman was killed Friday on Maui when her motorcycle collided with a pickup truck on Hana Highway, police said.

Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast yesterday — even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.

Honolulu's planned rail mass-transit project has missed two key dates.

$3.7 billion.

Keith and Tony Peterson were rummaging through the discount bin at a bookstore in Boulder, Colo., one afternoon and came across a copy of "Dreams From My Father" several years after it was first published.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has an uphill battle ahead as he strives to convince skeptical Americans he is just like them: A guy with an exotic biography, perhaps, but also someone with ordinary all-American working-class family roots on both his mother's side and on his wife's side.

A veteran bus driver making his last trip of the day was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Thursday after worried passengers made a 911 call about his erratic driving.

Wimpy rainfall is prompting the Board of Water Supply to ask Windward residents to cut back their water use by 50 gallons a day for an average family of four — about 10 percent — starting tomorrow until further notice.

He sprints, jumps and throws with the best, but Bryan Clay, the "World's Greatest Athlete," drew upon the support of his loved ones when he couldn't seem to get past an emotional hurdle.

Faced with the likelihood that it would be shut down by one of its creditors, the operator of two Hawaii Medical Center hospitals on O'ahu yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.