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COURTESY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Fissure 8 has shown minor activity since it died down. No spattering or glow was visible Sept. 11 during a drone flyover. Steam in the background is due to recent rainfall.
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What’s in a name? A lot, in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Board on Geographic Names, created by law in 1974, is consulting on what to call Kilauea’s lava Fissure No. 8.
And local knowledge really counts. In 1914 the U.S. Board on Geographic Names dubbed the waterway flowing out of Maui’s Iao Valley as Iao Stream. About a century later, researchers found it had been called Wailuku River before that. Once diverted water was restored to Maui streams, advocates successfully pushed the Hawaii board to restore the original name. But this fissure is new. No worries about lost names here.
A chapter closes for Katherine Kealoha
“Katherine Kealoha has resigned as a Deputy Prosecutor.”
With that lone terse sentence below its letterhead, the city Department of the Prosecuting Attorney on Monday severed its connection to the embattled attorney. It’s a needed official separation, in the best interest for public confidence in the Prosecutor’s Office. She has lingered on involuntary unpaid leave since October and was on voluntary unpaid leave before that.
Kealoha stands accused of a plethora of criminal charges involving corruption, bank fraud and mail theft. Along with her husband, former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, she is set to stand trial in November on bank fraud charges; in March, they and four one-time HPD officers will be tried on charges that they framed a Kealoha relative for mailbox theft.