The playground’s advocates and Mayor Kirk Caldwell had been adamant that the playground should be at Ala Moana. Now they’re changing course to build it at Kakaako Gateway Park.

Roger Nakamine is the only gunshot victim who survived the attack last week.

Ethics guidelines advise government agencies against accepting free food if the company has business before the city.

Officials took questions from only two reporters – and offered no new information in response – before leaving a press conference.

Officials refused to answer many questions about the U.S. sailor who shot and killed two civilians on the base, wounded another and then took his own life.

Updated. Waianae resident Vincent Kapoi Jr. was among the dead, according to his wife. Names of other victims have not been released.

As housing costs rise, renters have to cut bigger and bigger checks just to get in the door.

Ikaika Anderson is set to finish his third and last council term next year, and Alan Kekoa Texeira hopes to succeed him.

The city will likely take its former police chief to court.

He has the support of the police union and the chair of the police commission.

His office says it’s not clear what the feds want to talk about, but that Dwight Nadamoto will cooperate.

Neighbors and government officials say an environmental study is needed, but the Marine Corps has said it isn’t legally required to do one.