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Chinatown merchants told to use standardized trash bags
City officials are hoping a new refuse disposal policy for Chinatown merchants will improve the eternally messy trash situation in Honolulu’s oldest neighborhood. Read more
City officials are hoping a new refuse disposal policy for Chinatown merchants will improve the eternally messy trash situation in Honolulu’s oldest neighborhood. Read more
The Honolulu City Council has approved paying a prominent San Francisco-based law firm up to $225,000 to help city attorneys fight a federal investigation, although the focus of the probe is uncertain. Read more
Several hundred vehicles are expected to participate in a Hawaii Kai-to-Maili convoy Sunday morning to raise awareness about the opposition of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Read more
A convoy of several hundred vehicles driven by people objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea is expected to make its way from Hawaii Kai to Maili on Sunday morning. Read more
Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Wednesday hailed the completion of key renovations at Ala Moana Regional Park and took aim at critics of his park plans. Read more
An Oahu-wide food establishment ban on single-use plastics — from takeout containers, utensils and straws to carry-out bags — won the second of three needed approvals from the Honolulu City Council Wednesday. Read more
The Honolulu City Council on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would require the city to keep lifeguards on the beach from sunrise to sunset, a policy that Council members and ocean services personnel said is long overdue. Read more
The Hawaii Community Development Authority today is expected to approve giving the city up to $2.25 million for the transfer and upkeep of 41 acres of lower Kakaako park lands. Read more
A Honolulu City Council committee on Wednesday rejected a request for $300,000 in taxpayer money to be spent for private attorneys to represent employees of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, or HART. Read more
The Honolulu City Council on Wednesday voted by a narrow 5-3 margin to approve a measure allowing Mayor Kirk Caldwell to move forward with the contentious $345 million Ala Wai flood mitigation project. Read more
That set up a full Council vote on Resolution 19-182 for later today. Read more
Facing opposition from scores of residents, the Honolulu City Council delayed any decision on the controversial $345 million Ala Wai flood mitigation project. Read more
The city has issued five citations for illegal vacation rental ads culled from online hosting platforms — the first of many expected under a new law that took effect Aug. 1. Read more
City officials Monday formally opened the new Downtown Satellite City Hall at the Chinatown Gateway Plaza, a location that will provide twice the space and some added services unavailable at the old site in an underground Fort Street Mall space two blocks away. Read more
Several big-name hopefuls have emerged as serious contenders for Honolulu mayor with less than a year to go until Hawaii’s 2020 primary election day. Read more
The city and the Kokua Coalition agreed Thursday to work together on a plan to allow so-called 30-day vacation rental operators to continue. Read more
The city Department of Planning and Permitting is beefing up staffing, hiring up to six new temporary inspectors to help enforce a new and tougher vacation rental ordinance. Read more
Members of the Honolulu Rate Commission are hoping to provide to the City Council a recommendation on proposed rates for the upcoming rail line, TheBus and other city transit services by the end of the year. Read more
Two months in, public participation in the city’s revised bulky item trash pickup system is growing, and the pilot project is on its way to being a success — despite some glitches along the way, Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Monday. Read more
The Honolulu Rate Commission will take public testimony on the future of mass transit fares at a meeting from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Mission Memorial Hearing Room. Read more
The keys to Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro’s controversial “safe house” in Makiki will soon be turned over to the city Department of Community Services, ending a rocky three-year existence for a facility that became a lightning rod of controversy from the time it opened. Read more