The 56-year-old Lahaina man who was bitten by a shark while surfing at Honolua Bay died of his injuries today, according to a spokeswoman for the Maui Memorial Medical Center.

Roughly 20,000 people are in travel-related quarantine on Oahu and authorities are unable to keep up with enforcement.

An estimated 10,160 state employees will face twice-a-month furloughs beginning Jan. 1 and the number will be even higher when Department of Education and University of Hawaii employees are included, Gov. David Ige announced Wednesday as he struggles to balance the state’s budget and plug a projected $1.4 billion shortfall over each of the next four years.

A bill that would reduce, and in some instances eliminate, parking requirements for future development won a 9-0 approval from the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday, the last full Council meeting to be held before a major change in the nine-member lineup of the panel happens on Jan. 2.

The Hawaii County Board of Ethics on Wednesday found former Mayor Harry Kim guilty of violating the county’s ethics code when he didn’t enforce the law evenly during the 2019 Thirty Meter Telescope protests.

Riding a wave of support from female surfers, a bill for an ordinance requiring gender equity for sports activities requiring a park use permit, popularly known as “the surf equity bill,” was passed unanimously Wednesday by the nine-member Honolulu City Council.

A 31-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a woman at an apartment in downtown Honolulu allegedly punched her genital area multiple times, according to new court documents.

Two city-backed projects that would add about 260 rentals to Oahu’s badly needed affordable housing stock won final approval from the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday at its last meeting of the year.

Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a bipartisan coalition of 48 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit Wednesday against Facebook in which they allege the company has and continues to illegally stifle competition to protect its monopoly power.

The good times are over for Xtreme Fun Rentals Inc.

The Navy has established its newest “Tech Bridges” in Hawaii and in Panama City, Fla., with the Hawaii branch expected to be a “super connector” tying together state and local government, industry and academia to solve Navy problems.

iQ 360’s Honolulu office has announced the hiring of Mei Jie Wu as account coordinator. Wu is a recent University of Hawaii graduate. iQ 360 is an integrated communications agency that offers public relations, marketing, content and creative services to clients in the United States.

Q uestion : I have been unemployed since April due to the pandemic. My unemployment benefits are exhausted and I am eligible for extended benefits for 13 weeks. Is the three-jobs-per-week job search required? I thought the governor had waived that and that the waiver was still valid. However, the unemployment office told me to post my resume and list three job searches per week. Could you clarify

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Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a bipartisan coalition of 48 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit Wednesday against Facebook in which they allege the company has and continues to illegally stifle competition to protect its monopoly power.

Riding a wave of support from female surfers, a bill for an ordinance requiring gender equity for sports activities requiring a park use permit, popularly known as “the surf equity bill,” was passed unanimously Wednesday by the nine-member Honolulu City Council.

The Navy has established its newest “Tech Bridges” in Hawaii and in Panama City, Fla., with the Hawaii branch expected to be a “super connector” tying together state and local government, industry and academia to solve Navy problems.

The Hawaii County Board of Ethics on Wednesday found former Mayor Harry Kim guilty of violating the county’s ethics code when he didn’t enforce the law evenly during the 2019 Thirty Meter Telescope protests.

A 31-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a woman at an apartment in downtown Honolulu allegedly punched her genital area multiple times, according to new court documents.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Marsha McFadden, managing editor/news, at 529-4759 or email city editors at cityeditors@staradvertiser.com.

The good times are over for Xtreme Fun Rentals Inc.

iQ 360’s Honolulu office has announced the hiring of Mei Jie Wu as account coordinator. Wu is a recent University of Hawaii graduate. iQ 360 is an integrated communications agency that offers public relations, marketing, content and creative services to clients in the United States.

Two city-backed projects that would add about 260 rentals to Oahu’s badly needed affordable housing stock won final approval from the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday at its last meeting of the year.

A bill that would reduce, and in some instances eliminate, parking requirements for future development won a 9-0 approval from the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday, the last full Council meeting to be held before a major change in the nine-member lineup of the panel happens on Jan. 2.

Q uestion : I have been unemployed since April due to the pandemic. My unemployment benefits are exhausted and I am eligible for extended benefits for 13 weeks. Is the three-jobs-per-week job search required? I thought the governor had waived that and that the waiver was still valid. However, the unemployment office told me to post my resume and list three job searches per week. Could you clarify

Roughly 20,000 people are in travel-related quarantine on Oahu and authorities are unable to keep up with enforcement.

An estimated 10,160 state employees will face twice-a-month furloughs beginning Jan. 1 and the number will be even higher when Department of Education and University of Hawaii employees are included, Gov. David Ige announced Wednesday as he struggles to balance the state’s budget and plug a projected $1.4 billion shortfall over each of the next four years.

As part of his physical education, Hawaii offensive lineman Michael Eletise is embracing forward-thinking concepts.

The University of Hawaii men’s basketball team will have new on-court leadership when it opens the season against Hawaii Pacific on Friday in the Stan Sheriff Center.

Big, bad Boise State this month might well hoist high another Mountain West Conference football championship trophy, the Broncos’ third in four years.

TOKYO >> The Japan education ministry plans to allow an increase in the number of foreign students studying at Japan’s national universities beginning in the 2022 academic year, in an effort to increase the universities’ international competitiveness and secure their financial stability. National universities are distinct from public universities, which are run by local governments.

SAITAMA, Japan >> While surgical masks have been highly sought after this year, another kind of mask is seeing some demand — Joe Biden rubber masks.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic rattled Hawaii’s economy, a large portion of households here were living paycheck-to-paycheck. A report released by Aloha United Way earlier this year indicates no improvement over the last decade in the number of working residents situated just above the poverty line and unable to keep up with the cost of living.

The Department of Defense has an enormous presence in Hawaii, so despite the islands’ isolation, it’s not surprising that Tripler Army Medical Center would be one of 16 initial DOD sites to distribute the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19.

Drive-thru has enabled a whole new world of living, forced by social distancing due to the pandemic.

Reina Mei Nasino worked for Kadamay, an urban poverty organization in the Philippines. She and two fellow activists were arrested in November 2019 on charges of illegally possessing firearms and explosives, which were planted by police. While in confinement, Reina gave birth to a daughter. She was denied access to her child to care or breastfeed her. Baby River was separated from her mother and d

American humorist Will Rogers is credited with saying, “If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”

The lengthy article, “Wealthy homeowners are endangering Hawaii’s beaches” (Star-Advertiser, Dec. 6) , makes a rather obvious attack on owners of oceanfront property, laying the blame