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Waimanalo Tent-Dwellers: A Different Kind Of Homelessness
When Lavina Aina returned after a month of recovering from knee replacement surgery at Tutu Bert’s Homes, a medical respite home for homeless people, she checked on her neighbors. Aina is known as...
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Kealoha Attorneys Want Out Of Corruption Case
The three attorneys representing Louis and Katherine Kealoha, who were recently indicted on charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and obstruction, say the case is too big and costly for them to properly...
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The Case Against Katherine Kealoha Just Keeps Getting Worse
When the FBI arrested deputy prosecuting attorney Katherine Kealoha last month, one of the more troubling allegations was that Kealoha stole almost $150,000 from two children for whom she was serving...
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Why Social Media May Not Be So Good For Democracy
Recent revelations about how Russian agents inserted ads on Facebook, in an attempt to influence the 2016 election, present a troubling question: Is Facebook bad for democracy? As a scholar of the...
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Brittany Lyte: How To Be A ‘Morally Conscious’ Tourist
On a windsurfing trip to Mauritius off the coast of east Africa a few years ago, part-time Oahu resident Thomas Kohler and his friends enjoyed a spree of steady winds and clear, emerald seas. The local...
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The Open Data Movement Is Growing
The data continuously collected and stored by government agencies can become a tool for dramatic positive change, but only if it’s made available to those with the ability to organize it and...
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Neal Milner: This ‘Power Couple’ Is Not So Cool
The Kealohas are a power couple. Awesome! The more the ex-HPD chief and his wife make news for their felony indictments, the more they get described as a power couple. Civil Beat did it just the other...
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Flames Come From Hawaiian Airlines Plane Landing In Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — A Hawaiian Airlines plane landing at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport had flames coming from one of its engines. The aircraft was landing at about 9 p.m. Tuesday and air traffic...
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Judge To Kealohas: Show Me Your Finances
Before a federal judge appoints new defense attorneys for former Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and his prosecutor wife, Katherine, the couple needs to prove they don’t have the financial means to...
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OHA Sues State, UH Over ‘Longstanding Mismanagement’ Of Mauna Kea
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is suing the state and the University of Hawaii over claims of “longstanding and well-documented mismanagement” of Mauna Kea. OHA, which filed its lawsuit Tuesday, wants...
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‘Preferred’ Jail Site Currently Houses Animal Quarantine Station
Gov. David Ige announced Wednesday that the “preferred site” to build a new jail to replace the crumbling Oahu Community Correctional Center is on 25 acres of state land in Halawa Valley that now...
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Man On Trans-Pacific Voyage In Ocean Rowboat Rescued Off Maui
(AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a Chinese man off Hawaii who was voyaging from California to Asia in an ocean rowboat. The Coast Guard identified him as Ruihn Yu, a Chinese national who was...
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Ian Lind: Don’t Ban Campaign Fundraising During Legislative Sessions
Should legislators be prohibited from holding campaign fundraisers while the Legislature is in session? A lot of people think the answer is an obvious and irrefutable “yes.” Although I’m not a fan of...
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Why Gov. Ige’s Secret Talks With Airbnb Have So Many People Upset
When state Sen. Gil Riviere heard recently that Gov. David Ige was negotiating a tax collection agreement with Airbnb, he wasn’t surprised. Efforts to pass bills to regulate online vacation rental...
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Efforts Underway To Treat Rat Lungworm
Angiostrongyliasis, more commonly known as rat lungworm disease, is endemic in Hawaii with cases tracing as far back as the 1950s and 1960s, but that doesn’t soften the blow felt every time a person is...
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Judge: Kealohas Are Too Broke To Pay For Their Own Defense
A federal judge said Thursday that Louis and Katherine Kealoha, who are charged with a series of felonies related to bank fraud and conspiracy, are buried so far in debt that they can no longer afford...
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Boat Wreck Shows Ecological Risk Of Hawaii Fishing Fleet Practices
(AP) — Just offshore from Waikiki’s pristine white sand beaches, a fishing boat transporting foreign workers destined for low-paying jobs in Hawaii’s fishing fleet smashed into a shallow reef last...
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Hawaii Regulates Manicurists And Bartenders — Why Not Midwives?
When Sen. Josh Green, a Big Island family doctor who was chair of the Senate Health Committee, introduced a bill to regulate midwives in 2014, a hearing turned so contentious that Green said he broke a...
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Land Board: Alexander & Baldwin Can Keep Diverting Maui Water
Lucienne de Naie is not happy. The longtime East Maui resident flew all the way to Oahu to try and convince a state board to stop Alexander & Baldwin from diverting water from East Maui streams....
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Our Catastrophic Climate Gap
On Oct. 31, the annual Gap Report was issued by the United Nations. It assesses progress toward the goals of the Paris Accord — a 2015 agreement to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees celsius...
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