VIDEO: Coral Spawning
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Are Catastrophic Disasters Striking More Often?
No sooner had Hurricane Harvey’s record rains receded from Houston and neighboring cities than the residents of Florida began bracing for a wallop from an even more powerful storm. And hurricane season...
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Lawsuit: Hawaii County Police Used Stun Gun On Wrong Man
(AP) — Hawaii County police officers realized they arrested the wrong person after shooting him with a stun gun and assaulting him, a federal lawsuit alleges. Daniel Harris was visiting his mother at...
View ArticleHow A Police Officer’s Complaints About HPD Corruption Went Viral
A veteran police officer says he put his career on the line last week when he testified publicly before the city Police Commission about alleged corruption in the Honolulu Police Department. Denny...
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Former Navy Officer Gets 18 Months In Prison For Role In Widespread Scandal
Hawaii’s Pacific Command took another blow to its reputation Monday when a former deputy chief of staff for U.S. Special Operations in Honolulu was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for his role...
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News Outlets Challenge Honolulu Police Commission Secrecy
Two media outlets have filed a legal challenge to the Honolulu Police Commission’s long-standing practice of conducting closed-door hearings for officers seeking taxpayer-funded attorneys. On Monday,...
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Star-Advertiser Cuts Nearly 10 Percent Of Its Newsroom Staff
Oahu Publications plans a new round of job cuts — the second in the past year — at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, raising worries that the smaller newsroom won’t be able to sustain the quality of the...
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The Loyal Opposition To The Rail Special Session
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell can finally relax, now that the Legislature has passed another multi-billion-dollar bailout for the Honolulu rail project. Over a decade ago, the rail was introduced as a...
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Honolulu Rail: Hawaii Lawmakers Deserve Credit For Doing Their Job
The Hawaii Legislature has been excoriated in some corners for the way it conducted its five-day special session to fund the Honolulu rail project. Among the chastisements are that Senate Bill 4,...
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Denby Fawcett: Big Questions Still Smolder Two Months After Marco Polo Fire
On my way to appointments and interviews, I often drive past the scorched, blackened façade of the Marco Polo building and wonder what’s going on. It has been two months since the July 14 fire that...
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Medical Marijuana Sales Must Be Cashless Starting This Fall
(AP) — State officials announced Tuesday that Hawaii will be the first state to require marijuana sales to be handled without cash, saying they want to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting...
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Jury Clears School In Use Of Chair And Seat Belt For Special Ed Preschooler
The Hawaii Department of Education did not discriminate against an autistic preschool student who was placed in a specialized chair and fastened with a seat belt during school hours, a federal jury...
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Major Food Crisis Coming For Hawaii By Mid-Century
It’s out there. It’s a killer like we’ve never known. Warnings from the United Nations are growing more frequent, more insistent and more dire. But America is not paying attention. And few in Hawaii...
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Ian Lind: Going The Distance With A Sick Pet
Toby is one of four geriatric cats that share our home. He’s a neutered male, orange and white coloring, just a few weeks short of his 15th birthday. We know this only because we rescued him at about...
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Preschool In Hawaii: Expensive And ‘Ridiculously Hard to Find’
When it came time to find a public preschool for his 4-year-old son this school year, James Peck was one of the luckier parents. His son, Leo, is one of 15 kids enrolled in the inaugural preschool...
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The Fight Over Abortion In Hawaii
Religious anti-abortion groups are trading legal fire with state attorneys over whether a new Hawaii law regulating certain pregnancy clinics violates First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and...
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Democrats, Trump May Have Deal To Protect ‘Dreamers’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top House and Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of younger immigrants from deportation and fund some...
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Does Marijuana Affect Your Sleep?
If you speak to someone who has suffered from insomnia at all as an adult, chances are good that person has either tried using marijuana, or cannabis, for sleep or has thought about it. This is...
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Neal Milner: Politicians Need To Step Aside And Let The People Deal With Rail
It’s time to face rail reality. Whether you like it or not, or, like most of us, remain dazed and confused, the train is going forward as originally planned. So we citizens might as well begin to do...
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Chad Blair: Showering Hawaii Officials With Manapua
Cookies and plants. Calendars and model canoes. Airline tickets and hotel rooms. Those are just a few of the gifts donated to elected and appointed officials in the state. By law, they’re reported to...
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