Gov. Linda Lingle signed a letter yesterday requesting a presidential disaster declaration in response to the storm that struck Hawaii two weeks ago.

The rains have subsided and now residents of Oahu and Kauai are cleaning up and assessing the damage from last weekend’s downpours.

The Disaster Assistance Recovery Center in Haleiwa will be at the Waialua Community Building, or old Haleiwa gym, today and tomorrow, State Civil Defense said.

BY CARYN KUNZ LAIE-The Visitor’s Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple has been transformed this year by 20,000 lights, 75 poinsettias, and 17 fully-decorated Christmas trees in an …

State and city officials and agencies such as the Red Cross will be available at disaster assistance centers this week to help victims of last week’s floods.

As Bill Ah Sue, a police officer in Kaneohe, responded to calls for help with last week’s downpour, his own house in Laie was slowly filling with muddy water.

Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors Center missionary Sister Henrietta Kolo, who arrived from Kolofo’ou, Tonga, about four months ago, shows off some of the beautiful Christmas decorations, including: Christmas trees …

To see Hawaii takes a minimum of seven trips, one for each island. OK… maybe you arena TMt willing to make that kind of commitment.

A rare copy of the first Hawaiian-language translation of the Book of Mormon is now on display at the Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors Center in Laie.

Tourists play in the surf along this beguiling swath of powdery sand known as Lanikai Beach on the Windward Coast on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.