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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Friday it is scaling back its grant making and administrative spending in 2009 in light of the weak economy.

An independent ethics commission has determined it’s OK for government officials in Colorado to accept donated travel from businesses and others — providing such trips benefit the agency they work for.

The owner of the two Big Island daily newspapers has closed its State Capitol bureau in Honolulu two and a half years after it opened.