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Kaimuki Dry Goods and Kuni Island Fabrics are among a handful of fabric stores left in the industry. They have been in business for decades but may not be around in another five years as they struggle to survive the impact of online shopping.

Hotel investment usually means more rooms, better pools, greater restaurant and retail choices. More of that is eventually coming to Turtle Bay Resort, the largest hospitality development on Oahu’s North Shore. But on Friday the resort’s opening of Laulima Gardens proved that sometimes investing in the smallest of seeds brings the greatest community impact. The resort and Pono Pacific welcomed the first 32 plot caretakers to its new community garden, a roughly 50-acre parcel along the makai side of the resort’s 540 acres of agricultural lands, which are in various stages of stewardship. Video by Craig T. Kojima

An armed and wounded man with a long criminal history barricaded himself in his ex-girlfriend’s Pacific Palisades house Thursday morning in a standoff with police that continued late into the night.

DLNR held a press conference on Thursday regarding concerns that endangered plants and animals are being negatively impacted by the large human presence in the Mauna Loa Forest Reserve on the backside of Pu‘u Huluhulu, the site where protesters have been blocking Mauna Kea Access Road for the last two months.

Police responded to a man who holed up in a home on Komo Mai Drive in Pearl City today.

The state is finally dismantling and removing the Navatek II, a derelict catamaran, from the gateway of Waikiki where it has sat since May.

Hawaii officials said signs of severe and widespread coral bleaching event, as earlier predicted, are already apparent along reefs off of Maui due to higher than average ocean temperatures.

Honolulu first responders were at Tamarind Park in downtown Honolulu on Wednesday to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Along with members of the Honolulu Police Department, Honolulu Fire Department and Honolulu Emergency Services, a U.S. Navy color guard and the Royal Hawaiian Band also took part in the 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony. Visit staradvertiser.com for more Hawaii news. Star-Advertiser video by Craig T. Kojima. Editing by Jason Genegabus.

Kapono Miranda made his initial court appearance on Wednesday. He's accused of fatally shooting Alan Jennings in the parking lot fronting Lucky Strike Honolulu early Sunday.

The sun was shining brightly in Mililani on Tuesday as officials welcomed the the state’s largest collection of solar farms, a trio of sun-powered projects that will generate enough electricity to light up nearly 18,000 homes. Hawaii Gov. David Ige joined officials with Hawaiian Electric Co. and developer Clearway Energy Group for a Hawaiian blessing amid rows and rows of solar panels at Mililani Solar II project. Commercial operations at the three projects at Kawailoa, Waipio and Mililani were launched Tuesday following the blessing. Together, the projects are home to more than 833,000 solar panels generating 110 megawatts of power, estimated to make up for the belching of 1.2 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over 20 years.

Yunus Peer shares his signature recipe that uses canned soft beans and seasoned with Indian spices that merge to create a party in your mouth. They include cumin, coriander, ginger, garlic, turmeric, fenugreek seeds, black mustard seeds, cinnamon, cloves and dried red chili peppers. Find them at health food stores and Asian markets. Video by Cindy Ellen Russell

Alan Wong's Honolulu wine director Mark Shishido hosts a "cocktail omakase" every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the restaurant. Read more about the program in Barfly at staradvertiser.com.

On Oahu’s Sand Island a small team of coral specialists and technicians has been working for years to restore the slow-growing coral reefs in Hawaii that are being subjected to increasingly frequent bleaching events. The corals in the state, like many around the world, are threatened by climate change-driven bleaching, in which food-providing algae that live in their tissues abandon them once ocean temperatures become too warm, potentially killing the corals. The work of the Division of Aquatic Resources’ Anuenue Coral Restoration Nursery, which began in 2016, highlights the particular needs of Hawaii’s corals, which are among the slowest-growing in the world. Video by Stanley Lee

Hundreds of vehicles began leaving Maunalua Bay in Hawaii Kai at 9 a.m. Sept. 8, with people shouting “ku kia’i mauna” as they headed toward Maili. An hour later, dozens of vehicles — many outfitted with Hawaii flags — were still pulling out of packed parking lots in East Honolulu. Read more about the mobile protest at staradvertiser.com.

Two years after Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened on Maui, the legal pot industry has yet to achieve profitability. Since the start of the year, gross sales have been growing, with $2.3 million in statewide sales and 293 pounds of cannabis sold in July, up from $1.6 million and 203 pounds in January, according to new statistics from the state Health Department. But the dispensaries are still waiting for a return on their investment. For Maui Grown Therapies, the state’s first dispensary, which opened in August 2017 at 44 Paa St. in Kahului, gross revenue grew by 84% over the past two years, and the number of active patients increased 180%, the company said. Video by Kristen Consillio

The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in June added two new Fighter Ace 360 Flight Simulators.

A group of biologists recently returned from months of researching Hawaiian monk seals and sea turtles in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Eight people were displaced this afternoon after fire engulfed a single-story home on Winant Street in Kalihi. Forty-seven firefighters with 12 units responded to the family home at 903 Winant St. at about 12:35 p.m. and found it fully involved with fire, said Honolulu Fire Department Capt. Scot Seguirant.

Law enforcement officials gathered at the base of Mauna Kea Access Road today to begin tearing down an illegal wooden structure erected near the Mauna Kea camp.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Wednesday hailed the completion of key renovations at Ala Moana Regional Park and took aim at critics of his far-ranging master plan for Oahu’s most popular recreational stop, calling the critics “a very small group of people.”

Unwanted trash or economic treasure? Plans to expand a construction debris landfill in Nanakuli was met with opposition Wednesday night. PVT Land Co. Ltd., the landfill’s private operator, said its plan will have economic benefits that include employment, taxes and development costs.

A new $9.3 million clinical building will be dedicated Sept. 6 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's William S. Richardson School of Law.

A “vacant” 73-year-old house, sitting on a $2 million Kinau Street property and reportedly occupied by homeless people, went up in flames Tuesday. The fire was fully involved when firefighters arrived at 1051 Kinau St. four minutes after the 4:12 p.m. alarm. The 2,016-square-foot, two-story house with finished basement, built in 1946, was set for demolition, a fire official said. Neighbors expressed anger and frustration that the homeless had taken up occupancy, first on the porch, then enclosing the porch, punching out windows and using ladders to enter the upper floor and piling up rubbish in front of the house.

A house fire broke out on Kinau Street shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Lahaina Shave Ice offers more than 25 syrup flavors and other desserts besides shave ice.