Smith’s Union Bar, a Chinatown institution and Hono­lulu’s oldest continually operating bar, will be closing its doors after its landlord apparently decided not to renew its lease.

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A Honolulu courtroom delivered a stark reckoning on Wednesday, as a judge sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting two children who had been placed in his family’s care ...

The director of New Jersey’s most prominent LGBTQ rights group resigned after he was accused of pulling a foster child out of bed and slapping him repeatedly across the face. Christian Fuscarino, who ...

A 72-year-old woman was mysteriously found dead on the sidewalk outside the New York Botanical Garden this week, cops said. The senior, identified Wednesday as Lydia Marzan, was discovered lifeless ...

A 33-year-old Wahiawa man was sentenced in Circuit Court Wednesday to 20 years in prison for the sexual assault of two foster children under the age of 14 that took place over several years in the ...

For members of the Cedarwood Garden Club, Dec. 12 proved to be a win-win-win evening. They celebrated their final meeting of 2025 with spouses and guests, met in the beautiful, historic Coffin-Robbins ...

The final days of Claremont’s California Botanic Garden’s annual Luminaria Nights are this Friday and Saturday, December 19 and 20, featuring candlelit luminarias, art installations, food and drink, ...

Denver Botanic Gardens announced that after an intensive six-month executive search, its board of trustees unanimously appointed Donna McGinnis as the next CEO, effective Feb. 2, 2026. McGinnis has ...

Ruth and Charles Larabee moved to San Diego County in the 1940s, settling in an area that decades later would become part of the city of Encinitas. They bought 20 acres on a rolling hillside ...