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• Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference

  sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise.Roughly 650 people are coming to this year's weeklong   Read more »

• Cyr: North Korea's behavior reminiscent of Cold War

  High Altitude Air Defense) anti-missile system has arrived on Guam , a publicized potential target. In 2009, THAAD was sent to Hawaii during an earlier crisis with North Korea.A somewhat comparable missile confrontation occurred during the final months in   Read more »

• Travelers give Hawaii dogs 2nd chance on mainland

  breed he wanted. There were a lot of smaller dogs in the local shelter, mostly Chihuahuas and pit bulls.The dogs delivered from Hawaii have been mostly mixed breeds derived from Airedales, whippets and hounds -- breeds sometimes used on the islands to hunt   Read more »

• Suzann Pettersen maintains lead in Hawaii

  (AP) -- Suzann Pettersen shot a 4-under 68 on Friday at wind-swept Ko Olina to maintain a one-stroke lead after the third round of the LPGA Lotte Championship.The 32-year-old Norwegian, a 10-time LPGA Tour winner ranked sixth in the world, had a 14-under 2   Read more »

• Visiting Lanai, Hawaii before it changes

  close.Last year, the software entrepreneur and chief executive of Oracle Corp. bought 98 percent of Lanai, the sixth-largest Hawaiian island, for more than $500 million. Ellison wants to double down on the previous owners' bet that luxury tourism can be an   Read more »

Around the web

• Mega-galaxy is Missing Link in History of Cosmos

  variety of wavelengths were obtained at more than a dozen ground-based observatories, particularly the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. “The NIRC2/LGSAO image has revealed the existing stellar population of this pair of galaxies,” Fu said. “The radiation captured 5:59 AM from W.M. Keck Observatory Blog Read more »

• Jessica Chastain added to Maui Film Festival bill

  Jessica Chastain has been added to the celebrity honourees at this year's (13) Maui Film Festival in Hawaii. Kirsten Dunst and Brie Larson have already been announced as recepients of two of the event's top awards, and now the Zero Dark Thirty star is also 3:11 AM from Starpulse Read more »

• State imposes quarantine on bulls in Hawaii

  under a quarantine order issued by the state Department of Agriculture today. Ten infected herds in Hawaii — all but one on Hawaii island — have been detected since the disease was detected in bulls in the Kau District in 2011, the department said. Trichomoniasis 2:01 AM from Star Advertiser Read more »

• Researchers Predict Coral Distribution Around Hawaii

  of these factors on the distribution and abundance of coral species across the entire seascape of shallow reefs in the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI). “Average wave height and maximum wave height were the most influential variables explaining coral abundance 1:12 AM from RedOrbit Read more »

• Local View: Obama's leadership needed to address global warming

  On May 9, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed a long-feared milestone. Scientists at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reported it reached a concentration of 400 parts per million, something not seen on the Earth for millions of years. It was 1:09 AM from Duluth News Tribune Read more »