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Helping Those Who Help Their Kupuna: State Aid Program Takes Shape
Since her 86-year-old mother Bernarda was diagnosed with dementia in 2007, Darlene Rodrigues has gotten used to doing more with less. Less money — because as her mother’s primary caregiver she foots...
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Interior Chief Urges Shrinking 6 National Monuments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousand or even millions of acres...
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The Estimated Cost Of Honolulu Rail Just Dropped By $1 Billion
When policymakers were discussing how much money was needed to pay for the Honolulu rail project during the spring and summer, one estimate repeatedly surfaced: a big round figure of $10 billion. But...
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Denby Fawcett: 5 Ways Hawaii Condo Dwellers Can Protect Themselves
When I accompanied our daughter in her search to buy a condominium in Honolulu a few years ago, we didn’t even think to ask the real estate agent if the unit we liked had a fire sprinkler system or how...
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Chad Blair: Should Hawaii Be More Like California?
California really stuck it to Donald Trump last week. Lawmakers in the Golden State passed legislation urging Congress to censure the president for “his racist and bigoted behavior” after...
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Papahanaumokuakea Isn’t Targeted By Trump — At Least So Far
The world’s second-largest protected place, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, is not on the list of 10 monuments that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has...
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Save Our Limu: Uncle Henry’s Legacy Is Threatened
Henry Chang Wo Jr. learned the Hawaiian cultural practice of limu gathering from his grandmother, mother and aunt. Their primary limu harvest area encompassed the entire Ewa Beach shoreline, from the...
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Homeless Swept From Perches Atop Diamond Head Cliffs
Diamond Head Cliffs, one of Hawaiiʻs most iconic surfing areas, was the scene of a homeless sweep involving the Honolulu Police Department and 20 groundskeepers from the city Department of Parks and...
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Once-Plentiful Hawaii Bird Now Protected By Endangered Species Act
Facing extinction due in large part to the effects of climate change, the ‘i’iwi — a scarlet honeycreeper only found in Hawaii — will receive federal protection as a threatened species, the U.S. Fish...
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Man Accused Of Disrupting Flight Wants His Hearing Closed To The Public
(AP) — An attorney defending a man accused of inflight behavior that prompted military fighter jets to escort an airplane wants a hearing on his mental competency and detention to be closed to the...
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Nuclear Blast Preparations: Inside Legislators’ Secret Meeting
Dozens of legislators and their staffers met behind closed doors Tuesday to hear a briefing by state Emergency Management Agency officials on preparedness for a North Korea nuclear strike on Hawaii....
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Abused Toddler’s Mom Seeks Federal Help With Her Son’s Case
The mother of a Honolulu toddler who almost died from apparent abuse while under the care of a babysitter in 2015 is seeking a federal agency’s help in figuring out whether the sitter was ever put on...
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Ian Lind: It’s Time To End The Secrecy Surrounding Police Officers
A police officer shook things up earlier this month when he urged the Honolulu Police Commission to dig deeper into the police department’s handling of internal complaints, which he alleged have been...
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An Impatient Millennial Eats Crow, And Other Matters
The table is set, I’ve invited friends, a stiff glass of good bourbon’s been poured and I’m ready to dig in to this crow — particularly over my prediction that the Public Utilities Commission would...
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Firefighters Union Protests Lack Of Information On Marco Polo Investigation
Curious citizens and the media aren’t the only ones being kept in the dark about the cause of the Marco Polo apartment fire on July 14 that resulted in four deaths and an estimated $100 million in...
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Kealoha’s Quest For City To Pay His Legal Fees Takes A Nasty Turn
Tensions flared at Wednesday’s Honolulu Police Commission meeting as former Police Chief Louis Kealoha continued his quest to have taxpayers foot his legal bills. The latest salvo came from Kealoha’s...
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How The Manu-o-Ku Became Honolulu’s Top Bird
When I was working for the city back in 2007, I got a call from Keith Swindle of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He wanted to know if we would consider designating the white tern, or manu-o-Ku...
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Native Hawaiian Schools: Fight Erupts Over Money Management
For the first time in a decade, there’s new management on the way for a $1.5 million annual grant provided by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to Hawaiian-focused public charter schools, and not everyone...
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Brittany Lyte: Even Bird Lovers Glad Night Football Is Returning To Kauai
When the Waimea Menehune host the Kapaa Warriors this week at Hanapepe Stadium, it will mark the long-awaited return of Friday night lights to Kauai. For years, the island’s three public high schools...
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How Some Hawaii Officials’ Paychecks Compare To The Mainland
Everyone knows it’s harder to get by financially in Hawaii than on the mainland. After all, the average Honolulu worker earns $918 per week, less than half of the average for workers in mainland cities...
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