The five teens in Youth Speaks Hawai'i won first place at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The winning teens are Will Giles of Hawai'i Kai, Alaka'i Kotrys of Kunia, Jocelyn Ng of Kaimuki, Jamaica Osorio of Palolo Valley and Ittai Wong of Kailua.

Like the heroes that he draws, Marvel comics illustrator David Nakayama has wrestled with his inner demons: East against West, Japanese anime vs. Spider-Man and the Hulk.

Opinionated people who hate being sold to — that is, most of us — have always been a problem for consumer-goods companies.

The other day I was taking a shower, and the water suddenly stopped.

The death of 3-month-old Faith Nichols in Clarksville, Tenn., this month is one of the latest in a string of incidents nationwide that involved a child being left in a vehicle in searing summer temperatures.

With the start of college classes just around the corner, Hawai'i students are beginning the search for the best bargains on textbooks to offset what can add up to as much as a $900 expense each semester.

When Nashville, Tenn., mom Heather Jenkins went shopping for sunscreen to protect her young son's skin last summer, she found herself searching for terms such as "natural" and "organic" on the bottles and tubes that lined the store shelves.

A record number of babies were born in the U.S. in 2007, according to early federal data released Wednesday that some demographers say could signal an impending baby "boomlet."

Shannon Hiramoto is a storyteller, but instead of a pen and paper, she uses fabric and a sewing machine.