Beginning tomorrow, we are reorganizing some sections and tweaking our design to improve the Star-Bulletin's consistency and focus.

The first section will include national and world news as well as stories from most summaries on page 1. Page 2 will “;Spotlight”; events and people in the news, Q&As on events, and health and science reports. The Opinion and Commentary pages will be toward the back of the section.

A new section, Hawaii, will carry local news. Most of what has been on page 2 will move to page 2 of the Hawaii section. Obituaries also will run in this section. The Business section will become part of the Hawaii section, anchoring the last several pages. There will be one page of stock and mutual fund prices, instead of two, reflecting the move by investors to the Internet for market quotes. You can always find quotes for Hawaii stocks and mutual funds and all other stocks at starbulletin.com/business.

The Sports section will remain the same except for minor design changes; the Today section will not be affected. Classified/Legals will become a separate section except for Saturdays, when it will be part of a regular section.

Also, with the markets' turmoil commanding so much attention, we are adding two pages of analysis, lists and highlights to our Sunday Business section - one page on stocks and one on mutual funds. Today they are pages 8 and 9 in Business.

  Frank Bridgewater

Editor