on January 18, 2019 • Updated on January 17, 2019 at 6:58 pm
Posted on January 18, 2019 • Updated on January 17, 2019 at 6:58 pm
The Legislature wanted greater oversight of the Honolulu rail project, and part of that impulse led to the assignment of the state auditor to do a series of reviews.
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on January 17, 2019 • Updated on January 16, 2019 at 6:40 pm
Posted on January 17, 2019 • Updated on January 16, 2019 at 6:40 pm
The bulk of the city’s transit-oriented development (TOD) in the Halawa area is slated to occur within a radius of one-quarter mile from the proposed rail station at Aloha Stadium.
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on January 16, 2019 • Updated on January 16, 2019 at 5:24 pm
Posted on January 16, 2019 • Updated on January 16, 2019 at 5:24 pm
The investigation into corruption involving top Oahu law-and-order officials continues to widen and now has become even more concerning, touching the city administration for the first time.
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on January 14, 2019 • Updated on January 13, 2019 at 3:07 am
Posted on January 14, 2019 • Updated on January 13, 2019 at 3:07 am
For many who were awake at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 13, 2018, they will remember, likely for the rest of their lives, where they were at that precise moment and in the 38 minutes after.
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on January 13, 2019 • Updated on January 12, 2019 at 7:39 pm
Posted on January 13, 2019 • Updated on January 12, 2019 at 7:39 pm
It’s HART’s duty to provide the straight facts — to the feds, to its board and other overseers and, most crucially, to the riders who hope to reap the benefits of the rail someday.
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With this week’s opening of Punawai Rest Stop on the ground floor, there’s a buzz of excitement that the overall city-state-private effort indeed holds that sort of potential.
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One truism about imprisonment? There are limits. So imprisonment for serious crimes will come with walls and barbed wires, plus the curtailing of many freedoms that law-abiding citizens enjoy.
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on January 10, 2019 • Updated on January 9, 2019 at 6:48 pm
Posted on January 10, 2019 • Updated on January 9, 2019 at 6:48 pm
The whole idea of having the governor appoint members to the state Board of Education, formerly an elected body, was to give the state’s chief executive the reins over the public-education agenda.
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on January 9, 2019 • Updated on January 8, 2019 at 7:22 pm
Posted on January 9, 2019 • Updated on January 8, 2019 at 7:22 pm
Dogs are increasingly an important part of many people’s lives. Among the bits of evidence backing up this observation: U.S. spending on pets has risen from $17 billion in 1994 to an estimated $72 billion in 2018, according to the nonprofit American Pet Products Association.
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on January 8, 2019 • Updated on January 7, 2019 at 7:21 pm
Posted on January 8, 2019 • Updated on January 7, 2019 at 7:21 pm
There are people who ought to pay the price for the federal government’s partial shutdown, which shouldn’t fall exclusively on the backs of employees worried about when they might get their next paycheck.
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on January 7, 2019 • Updated on January 6, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Posted on January 7, 2019 • Updated on January 6, 2019 at 7:07 pm
The Legislature is shortly to begin its work, crafting new laws, revising old ones. It is a complex process for the average citizen to follow, even under the best conditions.
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on January 6, 2019 • Updated on January 4, 2019 at 7:18 pm
Posted on January 6, 2019 • Updated on January 4, 2019 at 7:18 pm
Ditching the containers that durably hold ever-popular hot and cold meals and snacks is no easy task. Still, long-term benefits for Hawaii’s environmental health outweigh cost bumps and perceived inconvenience.
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If you liked the last four years under Gov. David Ige’s administration, you’ll simply love these next four — since he’s retaining nearly all of his top people as department heads.
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Be forewarned, park-goers: 18 more city parks, from Makapuu to Mokuleia, are now closed at nights, in an effort to curtail vandalism and illegal homeless activity.
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Former President Barack Obama’s presidential library won’t be placed in his childhood home, but Obama offered Hawaii a consolation prize: a workshop at the University of Hawaii.
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on January 4, 2019 • Updated on January 3, 2019 at 6:38 pm
Posted on January 4, 2019 • Updated on January 3, 2019 at 6:38 pm
Two years ago, in response to a medical-aid-in-dying question posed by the Legislature’s House Judiciary chairman, the state Attorney General’s Office offered an opinion that a physician who prescribes a lethal dosage of medication to a terminally ill patient at the patient’s request could be charged with manslaughter.
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on January 3, 2019 • Updated on January 3, 2019 at 5:21 pm
Posted on January 3, 2019 • Updated on January 3, 2019 at 5:21 pm
Democracy has its twists and turns. Few cases illustrate the possible complications of elections more clearly than razor-thin contests, such as the Trevor Ozawa race against City Council challenger Tommy Waters.
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on January 2, 2019 • Updated on January 2, 2019 at 12:32 am
Posted on January 2, 2019 • Updated on January 2, 2019 at 12:32 am
As state lawmakers prep for the start of Hawaii’s 30th Legislature, which will convene in a few weeks, several laws advanced during last year’s session took effect Tuesday.
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