City of Honolulu salaries resolution closer to 2024 ballot
HONOLULU — Nine Honolulu City Council resolutions urging voter-approved charter amendments to overhaul how the city pays its employees were reduced to one this week.
Hawaiian Electric filing blames Maui County
Maui officials failed to clear excessive invasive vegetation before fires killed 101 people in Lahaina on Aug. 8, did not plan for the catastrophe and “fumbled the emergency response,” according to a counterclaim filed by Hawaiian Electric.
State pays $1.8M to settle foster kids’ lawsuit
HONOLULU — Three former foster children, now adults, of George Kipapa and his late wife, Jolyn Kipapa, agreed to a $1.8 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging abuses they suffered as foster children over 18 years.
Pearl Harbor attack survivor Herb Elfring dies at 102
Pearl Harbor attack survivor Herbert Elfring died Saturday in Michigan at age 102.
Lane, road closures extended on westside of Kaua‘i
Visitor dies after being pulled from the water
Growing popularity of e-bikes prompts safety concerns
First-time host Hawai‘i will stage the 13th FestPAC
Hawaiian Telcom, Navy install fiber-optic cable
HONOLULU — U.S. Navy Region Hawai‘i and Hawaiian Telcom are touting the completion of a joint project that put the largest fiber-optic cable ever installed in Hawai‘i beneath Pearl Harbor. Running underground, the cable creates a direct link between urban Honolulu and West O‘ahu.
Accused Hawai‘i Island drug trafficker was deported 4 times
HONOLULU — A Mexican national deported from the United States four times is charged with using an assault rifle while dealing methamphetamine and heroin on Hawai‘i Island.
New laws aim to turn tide on housing crisis
HONOLULU — Gov. Josh Green signed five “boring” but constructive bills into law Tuesday, along with a highly contentious one, aimed at increasing the affordable housing supply in Hawai‘i.
Hawaii bills address two different uses for AI
HILO, Hawai‘i — The state of Hawaii is preparing for the advent of artificial intelligence through a pair of proposed laws on the verge of passage.
A source of koa for canoe builders
Banks agree to lend $250M to Hawaiian Electric
Students at Mililani High are motivated for change
Japanese Coast Guard ship, trainees visit Hawai‘i
HONOLULU — Trainees from Japan’s Coast Guard Academy are in Hawai‘i as part of a training cruise that is taking them across the Pacific.
Warehouse fire in Puhi causes $500,000 in damage
Homeless with mental issues could be assessed involuntarily
Hundreds of people turn out for Memorial Day service at Kaua‘i Veterans Cemetery
Demolition of historic Jaggar Museum begins
HILO, Hawai‘i — For the first time in nearly a century, Kilauea summit will soon be without a museum.