Tropical storm Lana continues to intensify and is expected to become a hurricane today, but forecasters said the storm is expected pass far to the south of the state this weekend and have no significant impact on the Islands.

The two most recent Hawai'i deaths related to H1N1, or swine flu, were men with underlying medical conditions that contributed to their demise, the state Department of Health said yesterday.

A Pearl Harbor-based destroyer yesterday shot down a simulated short-range ballistic missile launched from Barking Sands on Kauai in an exercise.