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Taxpayers may pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the police shooting of a South African rugby star.

Hawaiʻi Island voters will have the chance to weigh in on three county charter amendment questions in the November election.

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The Elections Division is advising voters who previously held P.O. Boxes at the now-closed Kealia Post Office to re-register ...