Native Hawaiian Fisherman Sues To Restrict Foreign Fishing Licenses
(AP) — A Native Hawaiian fisherman is asking an environmental court to stop Hawaii officials from issuing commercial fishing licenses to those who aren’t legally admitted into the United States. Malama...
View ArticleFighting Back: This Former Navy Officer Isn’t Rolling Over In The Fat Leonard...
Lavish dinners. Pricey cognac and Cuban cigars. An all-expenses-paid vacation in the Philippines and a $30,000 hotel bill in Singapore. These are the elements of the kind of cozy relationships with...
View ArticleWaianae: A Community Under Threat
Ola Waianae I Ka Makani Kaiaulu. This is a moolelo (story) about a Native Hawaiian community tormented by a storm of socio-political-economic oppression and disparately impacted by the very same...
View ArticleHealth Beat: I Have No Idea How Much Medical Services Cost — But You Should
As the health care debate rages on, and everyone waits to see what the future holds for medical services in the United States, there is one big area that is being entirely ignored. Why does medical...
View ArticleNew Hawaii Schools Chief’s First Priority: Listening
Hawaii’s new schools superintendent Christina Kishimoto began her first day on the job Tuesday slipping unscheduled into a state Board of Education subcommittee meeting, nodding along during...
View ArticleNew UH Law Building Offers Students A Place For Hands-On Practice
Next spring, students at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law will have a state-of-the-art building to advise their own clients. The Clinical Building will provide a space for...
View ArticleSix People Arrested During Maui Solar Telescope Protest
(AP) — Six arrests were made when protesters tried to block an equipment convoy for a solar telescope being built on a Hawaii mountain held sacred by some Native Hawaiians. Police arrested two women...
View ArticleNavy Seeks Input On Undersea Sonar And Explosives In The Marianas
The U.S. Navy is encouraging the public to send in comments about its plan to intensify undersea training in the western Pacific and increase bombing of a tiny uninhabited island north of Guam. The...
View ArticleCongress OKs Big Boost In GI Bill College Aid For Veterans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Donald Trump legislation to provide the biggest expansion of college aid for military veterans in a decade. Better access to higher education could be...
View ArticleHawaii Is Building Its First Public Hydrogen Vehicle Fueling Station
(AP) — Hawaii is building its first public fueling station for hydrogen vehicles, which will enable the state to begin selling cars that only emit water vapor. Honolulu-based Servco Pacific is building...
View ArticleRat Lungworm: Hawaii Kicks Off $1 Million Campaign To Halt Spread of Disease
Gov. David Ige announced Wednesday that his administration is embarking on a two-year campaign aimed at curbing the spread of rat lungworm disease and soothing the public’s jitters over eating local...
View ArticleCouncil Committee Defers Proposal To Develop Haleiwa Farmland
The Honolulu City Council zoning committee deferred two bills Tuesday night that would have rezoned seven acres of agricultural land in Haleiwa to either residential or urban. Scott Wallace, who bought...
View ArticleNeal Milner: School Reform Faces Uncertainty — And That’s A Good Thing
With the new school year about to start, now’s a good time to consider two fundamental facts about education reform today: • There is less certainty about what school reform entails than there was 10...
View ArticleKauai Council Says No Thanks To $100K To Fight Climate Change
Kauai County Council members have rejected $100,000 in private donations to fund a climate action plan for their rural island, which is particularly susceptible to rising sea levels, stronger storms...
View ArticleNY Congressman Wants To Take Away Hawaii’s Gun-Control Rights
A Republican congressman from New York has proposed legislation that would overturn state gun-control bills nationwide, including those in Hawaii. Hawaii has some of the strictest gun-control laws in...
View ArticleHundreds Of Maui Students Affected By Bus Driver Shortage
WAILUKU, Maui (AP) — A shortage of bus drivers on Maui has forced state officials to suspend bus rides for students at three schools and limit rides for students at one school. Rides are suspended for...
View ArticleWhen The Sit-Lie Ban Isn’t Enough
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View ArticleTad Bartimus: Abandoned Pets Find Aloha In Northwest
PUUNENE, Maui — On May 25, a pointer-mix hound was found in a Kihei bush with six newborns and taken to the Maui Humane Society. Named “Perdita,” Spanish for “lost,” she and her puppies went into...
View Article‘Biocontrol Agents’ Could Be Used To Kill Albizia In Hawaii
Albizia is the scourge of Hawaii’s forests and a threat to power lines and roofs across the islands. With no natural enemies here, it is larger and more robust here than in anywhere else on Earth,...
View ArticleHonolulu Rail Art Celebrates Hawaiian Culture
On a concrete pillar supporting the Honolulu rail guideway, an engraving suggests the eyes of Lono, a Hawaiian god associated with agriculture, surveying the rich soil of Aloun Farms. In a few years,...
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