Fire Department Finds Unit Where High-Rise Fire Began
(AP) Fire investigators have determined where a deadly fire began in a Honolulu high-rise apartment building, but they’re still working to identify the cause. Honolulu Fire Department Capt. David...
View ArticleSome Students Shut Out Of School’s Marcus Mariota Event
For dozens of summer school students at Likelike Elementary, it was a rare opportunity to meet well-known NFL athlete Marcus Mariota, the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Titans, a former Heisman...
View ArticleIndustry Cancels Celebration Of Ban On Sprinkler Requirements
The Building Industry Association of Hawaii sent out an invitation Friday for a celebratory pau hana to mark a new law that continues to prohibit counties from requiring single-family and duplex homes...
View ArticleTheBus Noir: Mystery Of Circle Island
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View ArticleDo Aid-In-Dying Laws Reveal A New Health Care Divide?
The California Department of Public Health has just released a report that detailed the number of terminally ill patients over the past year who took advantage of the California End-of-Life Options Act...
View ArticleIan Lind: Does The Risk Justify The Cost Of Sprinklers In Older High-Rises?
Friday’s devastating fire in an upper section of the 36-story Marco Polo condominium was one of the the worst in Honolulu history. Three residents in units near the fire’s origin died, victims either...
View ArticleImprove Obamacare, Don’t Repeal It
Hawaii has long been a health care leader. In 1974 the landmark Prepaid Healthcare Act was passed by the Hawaii Legislature enabled us to insure most of our citizens by mandating that any working...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Why A Teetotaler President Has Us Talking About Booze
It strikes me as strange that so much talk about booze seems to swirl around President Donald Trump when Trump says he has never touched a drop of alcohol in his life. I gave up alcohol the day Trump...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Urged To Retain Hawaii Judge’s Ruling On Travel Ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Opponents of President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and visitors from six mostly Muslim countries are urging the Supreme Court to leave in place the order of a federal judge in...
View ArticleArson Dogs Search For Ignitable Liquids in Marco Polo Unit Where Fire Started
(AP) Fire investigators from the Big Island have arrived in Honolulu with an arson dog to search for ignitable liquids in the apartment where a deadly high-rise blaze broke out last week. Honolulu Fire...
View ArticleExplore A New Database Of Severe Worker Injuries In Hawaii
Last year a woman driving a golf cart on Pier 29 in Honolulu was hit by another vehicle and broke her neck. She was working at the time for Aloha Marine Lines, a barge shipping company. But she’s not...
View ArticleTwo Police Commissioners Say Secret Hearings For Cops Are Improper
The Honolulu Police Commission is scheduled to hold closed-door hearings Wednesday to decide whether taxpayers should pay the legal fees of two officers who were sued in relation to an ongoing U.S....
View ArticleNational Poll Finds That David Ige Is One Of The Least Popular Governors
A new state-by-state poll ranks Hawaii’s governor among the least popular chief executives in the country. Gov. David Ige, according to a Morning Consult poll, has an approval rating of just 48 percent...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Flim-Flam Man
In 2016, we heard Donald Trump boast: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” The fact that he still retains, according to the latest ABC News poll,...
View ArticleState Officials Breathe Easier After GOP Health Plan Collapses
The news that the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare had failed brought relief, at least temporarily, for health care providers who had been bracing for the possibility of deep cuts in...
View ArticleSupreme Court Upholds Refugee Ban But Grandparents Now OK
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can strictly enforce its ban on refugees, but is leaving in place a weakened travel ban that includes grandparents among relatives who...
View ArticleHawaii Still Owes $33M For Failed Interisland Superferry
(AP) — Hawaii’s interisland ferry was shut down eight years ago, but the state still owes $33 million for the costly failure. The state auditor said Wednesday Hawaii still owes money to pay off the...
View ArticleHuman Rights Petition Sent For Hawaii Fishermen
(AP) Groups have filed a human-rights complaint that aims to jump-start an investigation into conditions among foreign workers in Hawaii’s commercial fishing industry. Turtle Island Restoration Network...
View ArticleForeign Student Spending in Hawaii Decreases By 25 Percent
International students studying in Hawaii spent $225 million in the 2016-17 school year, a 25 percent dip from the year before, according to a report released Wednesday by the state’s resource center...
View ArticlePolice Commissioners Clash Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Secret Hearings
Two Honolulu police commissioners threatened to walk out of a public meeting Wednesday after arguing their colleagues were violating the First Amendment and state law requiring open governmental...
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