Man Takes Plea Deal In Kaena Point Albatross Killings
Nineteen-year-old Christian Gutierrez, one of three people charged with slaughtering Laysan albatrossess at Kaena Point in 2015, agreed to a plea deal Thursday in Circuit Court. Gutierrez was charged...
View ArticleLow-Income Tenants Ask State To Keep Their Housing Affordable
Almost 280 people live in the Front Street Apartments, an affordable housing complex in Lahaina on Maui’s western shore. In two and a half years, their rents will convert to market rates if state...
View ArticleTrump’s Initial Budget Proposal Is Meeting Resistance From Both Parties
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, the starting point for the nation’s upcoming debate about how and where to spend money, offered a heaping platter of funding recommendations, many...
View ArticleIn Search of Hawaii’s Mysterious False Killer Whales
MANELE BAY, Lanai — Robin Baird was down at the docks before sunrise March 7, eager to get back out on the water to search for endangered false killer whales off the coast of Lanai. It was Day 7 of a...
View ArticleDerrick Watson: An Apolitical Judge Caught In A Partisan Firestorm
With a stroke of his pen, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson placed himself in the middle of a political maelstrom. Watson issued a landmark ruling in Hawaii v. Trump on Wednesday, blocking...
View ArticleWaianae Contra-Flow Lane Was A Terrible Idea
I have been a teacher at Ma’ili Elementary in Waianae for the past four years and I have never felt so passionately about my work. I teach because I believe there is no better use of my time than...
View ArticleHonolulu To Pay $100K For Sewage Spill That Closed Waikiki Beach
Honolulu will pay a $100,000 fine and update its storm water and sewage spill procedures under an agreement reached with the state Department of Health. The consent agreement stems from an August 2015...
View ArticleVIDEO: Meet The Man Taking On Donald Trump
The day after Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin won a ruling by a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on immigration, Yunji de Nies sat down with the Chinese-American...
View ArticleHawaii Judge Refuses To Narrow His Ruling Against Travel Ban
The Hawaii judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on immigration has rejected a request by the Trump administration to essentially limit the scope of his ruling. At issue...
View ArticleWhy It’s So Hard To Eat Healthy In Hawaii If You’re Poor
Joshua Noga remembers preparations for a wedding held at Kalihi Valley Homes, the state’s largest public housing project, in the late-1980s. He was 6 years old and picking breadfruit — his contribution...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Emotional Support Chickens Are Ruffling Feathers
It is a sign of how silly it’s become when some Oahu residents are claiming that their pet chickens or even a pygmy elephant are emotional support animals. And the animal owners are offering proof with...
View ArticleThe 5 Stages of Opening the Rear Door On The Bus
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View ArticleMoney Saving Measures That Make Sense
Your March 13 article “State Revenue Forecast Drops By $250 Million” comes at a good time for the Legislature to come up with innovative ways to address our unfunded liability crisis and help balance...
View ArticleWill Tiny Homes Help Big Island Farmers?
Eila Algood is both a poet and a farmer. On her 34 acres of agricultural land in North Kohala, Algood plants trees to help reforestation efforts, and harvests eggs from her 15 chickens to sell. Algood...
View ArticleHawaii Learned Its Lesson On Discrimination 75 Years Ago
When it comes to fighting for American values, Hawaii is really on a roll. In February, the state filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to block the president’s executive...
View ArticleAid-In-Dying: It’s About Defining Choice
In April my grandmother will turn 98. Most of the time her mind is clear. She uses a cane, but still gets around. For all intent and purposes she is healthy. But these days, she talks about dying the...
View ArticleReader Rep: Journalists Rely Too Much On Canned Statements
One of the most disappointing developments in contemporary journalistic practice is the increasing reliance on written statements from sources, ranging from text messages and Tweets to emails and press...
View ArticleHirono: Gorsuch Has Pattern Of Ignoring ‘The Little Guy’
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono is not holding back on her concerns about President Donald Trump’s nominee to the highest court in the land. The Hawaii senator, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on...
View ArticleReport: Rail Could Save Big With Private Financing
Honolulu’s troubled rail project could save as much as $570 million by getting a private sector contractor to finance the final push for the 21-station, 20-mile line, according to a report released...
View ArticleHawaii Rep Creagan Revives Pesticide Disclosure Bill
Rep. Richard Creagan wants to take another shot at passing a bill that would require agribusinesses that use large amounts of pesticides to disclose what pesticides they apply, where and in what...
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