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HONOLULU (KITV4) - The sighting of a Chinese surveillance balloon over Montana Thursday drew worldwide attention. People involved in international relations at the East-West Center in Manoa, Hawaii stress this balloon’s purpose is only to gather data.

HONOLULU (KITV4) An upper low over the state will maintain an unstable and moist airmass which will generate showers and isolated thunderstorms, with locally heavy rainfall, into this evening. Drier and more stable conditions will filter across the state to begin the work week, with trade winds focusing showers mainly across windward areas into next weekend.

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The City and County of Honolulu has issued a Notice of Violation to a local construction company, after a boulder went crashing into a home last month -- narrowly missing a woman. 1816 Palolo Ave LLC, contractors Pro Build Hawaii Construction, and Engineer Xiang Yee were ordered...

HONOLULU (KITV4) - Increasing trades will bring increasing trade wind showers Expect partly to mostly cloudy skies Friday with heavy rain at times and a few thunderstorms. Highs 78 to 83. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight, cloudy with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms from Kaua'i to Moloka'i. Lows...

Waialua, HAWAII (KITV4)-- Developer, Peter Savio, has announced that 155 acres of farmland in Waialua will be available to farmers. It is a fee simple organic and non-organic orchard plantation for farmers who want to own the land they farm on. The plantation will use R2 water-making it meant for orchards and plants, not vegetables.

HONOLULU (KITV4) – Numerous passing trade wind showers this weekend. Breezy trade winds develop. Overnight, cloudy skies with scattered rains. Lows in the upper 60s. NE trade winds at 10-15 mph.

KAILUA, HAWAII (KITV4) - "When you think of Mike Chu, you can think of “aloha” and everything that word means,” said Carl Maybin as he walked into Mike Chu’s celebration of life ceremony on that drizzly Saturday morning. Hundreds of people gathered at St. John Vianney...

EWA BEACH (KITV4) -- For at least the fourth time in the past couple years, Ewa Pantry on Fort Weaver Road in Ewa Beach was burglarized. The store's alarm went off around 4 a.m. Thursday and a car could be heard speeding away. The burglar broke in, shattering the glass doors. Items reportedly stolen included cigarettes.

HONOLULU (KITV4) – Residents in the City and County of Honolulu can now apply to the waitlist for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Eligible households can apply to receive rental assistance funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A total of 3,000 households will be selected.

MILILANI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- 46-year-old Desmond Kekahuna was charged with attempted murder and assault Friday, and one man who witnessed -- and survived -- Kekahuna's attack shared what he saw happen. Zach Jones, a disabled veteran, was in the Walmart parking lot in Mililani when, according to reports, Kekahuna intentionally...

MILILANI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- The man accused of intentionally running over a woman in the parking lot of a Walmart store in Mililani has now been charged with attempted murder and assault. That suspect has been identified as 46-year-old Desmond Kekahuna.