HONOLULU, HI - Walgreens has sold its flagship Hawaii store across from Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, along with the adjacent Heald College Building on Kapiolani Boulevard, to Los Angeles-based investment bank and wealth management firm Salem Partners for a total of $73.5 million...(read more)

LONDON — The British drug maker AstraZeneca said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire ZS Pharma, a California-based biopharmaceutical company, for $2.7 billion in cash.  The transaction is expected to improve AstraZeneca’s pipeline of treatments for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and comes as the British drug maker is set to lose exclusivity in the United States for its best-selling cholesterol treatment, Crestor...(read more)