John Berger

Gov. Josh Green and Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi shared the Blaisdell Arena concert stage Friday as Blangiardi proclaimed Sept. 5 and 6 a two-day “MAHALO, JOURNEY — FOR 52 YEARS OF ALOHA” celebration in the City &County of Honolulu, and Green did the same for the entire state. Journey guitarist Neal Schon, the through-line member of Journey from the group’s founding in 1973 through the many personnel changes up to the present, thanked Green and Blangiardi for the recognition. He also thanked Journey’s fans for their support.

Kamaki Kanahele — a leader in the homestead movement who was committed to addressing health disparities faced by Native Hawaiians in Waianae and across the state — died July 27 in Waianae. He was 81.

Three men were arrested after a 29-year-old woman reported she was sexually assaulted in the Kalihi area, Honolulu police said.

Police are searching for the person who stabbed a 58-year-old man early this morning in Waimanalo.

Two Maui men were charged with murder after a 71-year-old man died Friday from injuries he suffered when he was beaten and kicked during an attack in Kahului, according to the Maui Police Department.

Jamie Offenbach, the classically trained bass-baritone vocalist and artistic director of Hawai‘i Opera Theatre who created the innovative Studio101 program that brought new audiences to the company, died July 10 in Honolulu. He was 62.

It was a moment of high drama and great suspense when Lahaina residents Chrissy Lovitt and Emma Nelson were contestants on the NBC game show “The Wall.”

Duane Preble was “Mr. Art Education” to thousands of University of Hawaii at Manoa students.

Ei Nei, the trio comprising Dane Fujiwara, Grant Kono and ‘Ekolu Chang, came away the big winners as the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts presented the 49th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards on Saturday in the Hawaii Ballroom at the Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort.

One of the most complicated things in Hawaiian songwriting is the cherished tradition of kaona — the use of lyrics with secondary meanings that are known only by people who are close to the writer. A song that describes the beauty of a specific geographic place may do so with lyrics that tell that story perfectly, but which people who know the kaona will recognize as describing the beauty of a person who lives there, or perhaps referencing something romantic that occurred there.