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Hawaii Land Board Grants Permit To Build Thirty Meter Telescope
Hawaii’s Board of Land and Natural Resources on Thursday granted a construction permit for a giant telescope on a mountain that Native Hawaiians consider sacred, a project that has divided the state....
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Judge Blocks Release Of Names Of Former Undercover Cops — For Now
A judge has at least temporarily blocked the city from releasing the names of current and past undercover officers at the request of the statewide police union. The State of Hawaii Organization of...
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Sea Critters Hitchhiked Across The Pacific On Tsunami Debris
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States,...
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Brittany Lyte: Sustainable Food Movement Flourishes On Kauai’s North Shore
KILAUEA, Kauai — Patrick Jones kneels in the dirt and starts to prune a greenhouse of five dozen tomato plants climbing on trellises. It’s 86 degrees outside, but the temperature in the screened-in...
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How Hawaii Schools Are Rethinking Social Studies
When Lahainaluna High School social studies teacher Robert Sternthall heard some of his students complain about getting harassed by police for riding their skateboards on the streets, he encouraged...
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Telescope Project Still Faces Fight From Hawaiian Opponents
(AP) — One of Hawaii’s most divisive issues is centered on a largely barren, wintry mountain — its peak the highest point in the state — accessible via vehicles with four-wheel drive that can navigate...
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Groups Say They’ll Challenge Trump’s Latest Travel Ban
(AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union said Friday it will challenge the Trump administration’s latest travel ban, the first such legal action to be announced against the new ban. The ACLU and...
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Tom Yamachika: One Man’s Fight Against Hawaii’s Tax Department
Over the past several months there has been a court fight brewing that could have changed how the state Department of Taxation lobbies for legislation. That’s right. Not only special interest groups...
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4 Dead In Maui Head-On Collision
WAILUKU, Maui (AP) — Four people died and several others were injured in a head-on vehicle collision on Maui’s northwest side, authorities said. The collision happened Saturday night when the driver of...
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Federal Regulators Ratchet Up Probe of Ford Explorer Exhaust Complaints
Over the last five years, auto safety regulators have received hundreds of complaints of exhaust fumes and carbon monoxide wafting into the cabins of Ford Explorers. Investigators from the National...
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The Disturbing State Of Mental Health Care In Hawaii’s Prisons
Nolan Espinda, the director of the Hawaii Department of Public Safety, was facing a crisis. Earlier this year, Espinda learned that his department’s mental health branch was operating severely...
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Pod Squad: A Preview Of Our New ‘On Campus’ Podcast
Later this week, Civil Beat plans “On Campus,” a new podcast set at Kamalani Academy, a new middle school charter school in Wahiawa. Education reporter Suevon Lee and Civil Beat fellow Courtney Teague...
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Reader Rep: Reporters Are Ignoring Trouble At The Honolulu Zoo
The Honolulu Zoo has another new director (its sixth in eight years) and millions of new dollars devoted to it. That combination — taxpayers being on the hook for more of the bills, under unstable...
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Grading Hawaii’s New Schools Chief
Hawaii’s new schools superintendent will face an evaluation process that aims to be more fluid and include more input from both education administrators and members of the public. That’s the idea...
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Chad Blair: Hawaii’s Surprising Number Of Lobbyists
In the 2008 presidential campaign Hillary Clinton was criticized by Barack Obama for defending Washington, D.C., lobbyists as people who “represent real Americans.” I agree with Clinton on this one. As...
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US General: We’ll Fly Where International Rules Allow
(AP) — The U.S. Air Force’s top commander in the Asia-Pacific region said his troops haven’t changed the way they operate in response to North Korea’s assertion that it would have the right to shoot...
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BYU-Hawaii To Pay $5K To Settle Sex Harassment Lawsuit
(AP) — An attorney representing Brigham Young University-Hawaii tells a federal judge the school will pay $5,000 to settle a former student’s lawsuit alleging her campus job supervisor sexually...
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The Princess Bride: Hawaiian Heiress Gets Married Amid Legal Dispute
Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, the 91-year-old Hawaiian heiress who inherited $215 million from the Campbell Estate, married longtime companion Veronica Gail Worth on Sunday. An announcement emailed to...
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The State Of Coral In The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
A team of scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has returned from a monthlong trip to Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument with reams of research on coral and fish...
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Chad Blair: Special Interests Spend Big On Their Lobbyists
My previous column on lobbying in Hawaii explained what defines a lobbyist — for example, being paid to influence legislation. But lobbying isn’t just about money. It’s about access and persuasion. It...
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