Foreclosures remain a growing problem in Hawai'i, but a survey of troubled mortgages suggests that threatened and actual home losses in Honolulu aren't as severe as they are in most of the country's largest metropolitan areas.

MANOA — Many parents of Manoa Elementary School students passed the first test — back-to-school traffic — as classes opened for dozens of Hawai'i public schools yesterday.

Local and national gay and lesbian rights groups urged the University of Hawai‘i to “act swiftly” after its football coach, Greg McMackin, used a gay slur at a press conference yesterday.