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Six States Seek To Intervene In Hawaii’s Travel Ban Challenge
(AP) — Six U.S. states want to intervene in Hawaii’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The states of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Washington filed a...
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A Look At The Business Execs Up For Seats On Honolulu Police Commission
Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s two nominees to the board that oversees Honolulu’s troubled police department will be questioned by a Honolulu City Council committee on Tuesday in a first step toward...
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This May Be The Election When We Stop Ignoring OHA
Voter turnout in Hawaii is typically abysmal, especially races for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. But two high-profile candidates with lots of government experience running next year for seats on the...
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With Our High Cost Of Living, Plantation Days Don’t Seem So Long Ago
“Dat’s why hard.” This was one of my grandpa’s favorite lines when recounting his days growing up on the plantations in Lahaina. It was usually followed by tales of 11-hour workdays while making a...
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Jason Armstrong: Trucking Trash All The Way Across The Big Island
HILO, Hawaii Island — Besides volcanic emissions and little fire ants, another undesirable East Hawaii export is heading to the Big Island’s leeward side: truckloads of trash. “We expect that probably...
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On Campus: A New Charter School Scrambles To Open Its Doors
Days before Kamalani Academy opened in August, the new Wahiawa charter school was scrambling — to train teachers, to find a vendor to provide school lunches, to figure out how to get enough electricity...
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After Kidney Cancer Treatment, Hirono Reports ‘Spots’ On Her Thyroid
Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono, who underwent two surgeries for kidney cancer after it was diagnosed in May, said in a statement to the media Tuesday that she will now be treated for “small spots in my...
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Native Hawaiian Health Task Force Isn’t Giving Up The Fight
Native Hawaiians have the poorest health of any ethnic group in the islands. That’s been the underlying message of decades of research, from the first Native Hawaiian Health Needs study in 1985 to a...
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It’s Hard To Say Where Homeless People Go After Sweeps
On Oct. 23 when state and city workers were clearing out what had been a 180-person homeless encampment under the Nimitz Highway Viaduct, city Housing Director Marc Alexander told the Honolulu City...
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Some Of Our Best Reporting On Honolulu Police Misconduct
A federal indictment of former Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and his wife Katherine, a city prosecutor, along with four officers in a covert intelligence unit, is shedding light on allegations of...
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Da Kine Pidgin Is Sweet Upon The Tongue
Were it not for Hawaii’s Pidgin English, I doubt my Grandma and I, her first grandchild, could’ve understood each other, she knowing very little English, and I, an ignoramus about her mother language,...
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Three Officers Plead Not Guilty In Honolulu Police Corruption Case
Three Honolulu police officers caught up in the ongoing corruption scandal involving former Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his prosecutor wife, Katherine, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal...
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Honolulu Women Rescued By Navy Defend Their Account Of Ordeal At Sea
(AP) — Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the...
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Hawaii Longline Group Wants To Defend Licenses For Foreign Fishermen
(AP) — A group representing Hawaii commercial fishermen has filed a court motion to defend the state’s practice of giving fishing licenses to foreign workers. The Hawaii Longline Association sought...
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Council Confirms Two New Honolulu Police Commission Members
The Honolulu City Council unanimously confirmed the nominations of Jerry Gibson and Karen Chang to the Honolulu Police Commission on Wednesday. The seven-member commission is charged with overseeing...
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Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Secret Meetings About Police Chief
A lawsuit that could have nullified a $250,000 cash payout to former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha was dismissed Wednesday by Hawaii Circuit Court Judge Virginia Crandall. The suit was filed in...
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Officers Hope New Chief Will Clear Away ‘Dark Cloud Over HPD’
One morning in December 2008, after weeks of heavy rain, the Kapakani Stream spilled over its banks and flooded a section of Waipahu Depot Street, just outside of the Honolulu police academy. About 30...
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Ian Lind: It Turns Out We Owe Chuck Totto A Big Thank-You
The case that started with a stolen mailbox in Kahala has now yielded federal criminal charges against former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, his wife, Katherine, a high-ranking Honolulu...
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How Can We Improve Civic Dialogue In Hawaii?
More than 150 people from the civic, private, and public sectors and the public at large are expected to gather for an important conference on Dec. 1-2 at the East-West Center. The conference, open to...
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Alan McNarie: Lab’s Rat Lungworm Research Finally Gave This Man A Diagnosis
Kana Covington had a worm in his left eye. He had to go all the way to Phoenix to find an eye surgeon willing to remove it, because doctors in Hawaii wouldn’t recognize the test that detected it. Now,...
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