Outreach workers from the Kealahou West Oahu social service agency on Monday began notifying members of a Nanakuli homeless encampment that the city plans to close a mile-long portion of Ulehawa Beach Park for a week and clean up the area once again as an October court date approaches challenging the city’s homeless policies ..read more

CALENDAR TODAY GOLF ILH: Varsity I, Semifinals, 7 a.m. at Hoakalei Country Club. OIA: Championship, first round, 7:30 a.m. at Leilehua Golf Course. SAILING ILH: Varsity II and III, Regatta No. 4, 4 p.m. at Read More ..read more

On the air Listings are for Oceanic and Hawaiian Telcom analog/digital. *—premium station. **—retelecast. ***—delayed. Check your TV guide for latest updates. TODAY   TIME TV CH HT BASEBALL: MLB Guardians at Red Sox 5 Read More ..read more

The recent letter purporting to give a history lesson that Palestine has been an independent state is entirely false for a number of reasons (“Gaza conflict about more than right versus wrong,” Star-Advertiser, April 4 ..read more

Hawaii’s Kellie Yamane shot a 2-over-par 74 on Monday and is tied for eighth after the second round of the Big West Women’s Golf Championship in Las Vegas ..read more

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LOS ANGELES >> At his day job, Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. uses high-tech software to create visual effects for movies such as “Happy Feet” and “The Matrix Revolutions.” But in his free time, he prefers working with a decidedly less sophisticated medium: discarded gum wrappers ..read more

The power outage that hit East Honolulu due to Sunday afternoon’s bad weather didn’t just leave some 13,000 customers in the dark for hours. It also knocked the East Honolulu Wastewater Treatment Plant offline — and in the 45 minutes before emergency power restored operations, 237,500 gallons of partially treated sewage got released into the ocean. The public is now advised to stay out of waters in and around Sandy Beach Park, stretching from the Halona blowhole lookout through the Kealahou Street area, until the state cancels the advisory ..read more

As a primary care physician in the Waipahu area, I have mixed feelings on the recent news of the opening of the Waipahu High School Academic Health Center. I think it is great to have a safe place to mentor and encourage our future health care workers. I also see great benefits to having convenient medical services available, especially to the underserved and those with no primary care physician ..read more

Hawaiian Electric fully restored power to customers in East Honolulu on Monday, but not before four public schools had been closed for the day and many customers faced water supply issues ..read more