Last Top Stories: Slideshow: A sneak peek of the Honolulu Coffee Experience Center in Waikiki

Slideshow: A sneak peek of the Honolulu Coffee Experience Center in Waikiki

After nearly a year of work, a new home for Honolulu Coffee's expanding operations is slowly taking shape in the former Hard Rock Cafe space near Waikiki across the street from the Hawaii Convention Center. With only about three months until its ... >> view original

Curt Sanburn: Urban Archaeology of Honolulu, Part II

Meanwhile, the city squabbled with the territorial government over highways to the Windward Side, with Honolulu Mayor Johnny Wilson preferring a tunnel route up Kalihi valley, and the Territorial government, armed with federal funds, preferring to ... >> view original

For the friendliest places on the planet, think Honolulu or Amsterdam -- but ...

As cities go, Honolulu and Amsterdam couldn't be more different. But they do have this in common: They're open, friendly, inviting. That's according to a recent Travelzoo poll of 6,000 travelers who responded to the company's online survey. Honolulu ... >> view original

Competing for the best catch at the Honolulu Fish Auction - Honolulu Star

Hundreds of fish lay on pallets on the Honolulu Fish Auction's floor. Inside the auction's facility of the Commercial Fishing Village on Pier 38, auctioneers are calling prices, potential buyers are inspecting the fish and others continue to line up ... >> view original

The Pod Squad: 'Down-and-Dirty History of Planning' in Honolulu

Sanburn's first piece frequently cited the work of Lewis Mumford, an architecture critic for New Yorker magazine who came to Honolulu in the 1930s and criticized it for “higgledy-piggledy” development and construction that failed to take advantage of ... >> view original

Starbucks opening at Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu

Starbucks is opening a new cafe inside the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu this fall, the general manager of the hotel confirmed to PBN. The cafe, which will be located in the former space of a hotel-operated bar, will seat about 90 people and take up ... >> view original

Pearl Harbor sailors exhumed at Honolulu's National Memorial Cemetery of the ...

The military on Monday exhumed more caskets containing the unidentified remains of USS Oklahoma crew members killed in the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. The coffins were dug up at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, where ... >> view original

Public can assist City Charter effort - Honolulu Star

The 13-person commission is tasked with studying and reviewing the core operations of the city government as spelled out in the City Charter, find ways Honolulu Hale can run better and then put those proposed changes before voters in the form of ... >> view original

Lost cat found in Honolulu traced to Detroit family

“There's a number of cats I manage on Ualena Street near the Honolulu airport. Bogie started showing up periodically.” Bogie was friendlier than most feral cats and caught Antilla's eye because he looked like a purebred Siamese — unusual among the ... >> view original

Howard Hughes plans retail space below Honolulu's Ward Theaters

The Howard Hughes Corp. is planning to build out three retail spaces on the ground floor of its Consolidated Theatres Ward 16, the senior general manager of the Texas-based developer's Ward Village Shops said. The retail spaces, which would likely be ... >> view original