1. Hawaii gang enforcer gets 30 years, ending landmark case
2. State Job Growth? 'Health Care and Food Services'
3. HDoT Awards Contract for Removal of 'Falls of Clyde'
4. Honolulu Rewards City Employee for Alleged Stealing – Five Years Paid Vacation
5. Ousted Kahuku head football coach sues DOE, former team captain, and player’s father
6. Hawaii Pushes Back on Anti-Tourism Sentiments in New Maui Campaign
7. Man charged in meth money-laundering scheme
8. Developer Loses Court Fight To Build Luxury Homes On 'Anthrax Graveyard'
9. Kahala oceanfront condos face looming deadline
10. TheBus considering pushing West Oahu riders to use Skyline to get to town
11. Two ex-HPD officers indemnified in wrongful death suit
12. This Common Precursor To Murder Is Too Rarely Prosecuted On Maui
13. Investigator: Vocal Red Hill Whistleblower Faced Pushback For Speaking Out
14. Staff shortage hinders Navy program in Hawaii tasked with cleanup of contaminated sites

1. LGBTQ Commission Pushing Green to Sign Executive Order Making Hawaii Sex-Change Kidnapping Sanctuary
2. Discovery of unknown publications by Batimea Pua’aiki (Blind Bartimeus of Hawaii)
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 11, 2025
4. Keohokalole, Tokuda Whine About Difficulties of Being in Congress
5. State Sued for Playing Fast and Loose With Special Funds  
6. New ownership unlikely to quench conflict over Maui water
7. HPD: Number of illegal game rooms down in 2025
8. ʻEwa Developer Settles Marina Case For $40 Million

1. SNAP Cliffs Are Coming
2. Permitting progress prevails
3. Judicial Nominees Sought for Oahu, Maui, Big Island
4. FBI Interfered in Legislature and ‘Let’ A Dirty Lawmaker Get Reelected  
5. Who Framed Chief Pellitier? – no answers yet
6. What’s Next for “Hammah”? Lance Bermudez, key Miske associate, to be sentenced
7. Green: No Special Session Needed to Deal with Trump Cuts
8. ‘Green fee’ questions needs answers
9. Federal Solar Subsidies Coming to an End
10. Hu Honua Pushing Power Deal Before ‘Clean’ Energy Subsidies Expire
11. Shapiro: Let Hawaii voters have real choices—Knock Republicans off General Election Ballot
12. Homeless Meth Addicts on Amala Place must leave by next week, Maui County says (again)

1. HTA Board Positions Open
2. VIDEO: HFD Chief Hao on the Māʻili wildfire
3. 42 More Homeless Beds Available in Iwilei
4. SHOPO Bags Three Chiefs—Swing and a miss on Maui
5. Hawai‘i County Police Commission to discuss appointment of interim chief at next meeting
6. Could this Hawaii community be the next Lahaina? Some residents fear a similar wildfire fate
7. To Clear Out Zombies, City Council considers ‘Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District’
8. Maui Council advances bills for agricultural tourism and food trucks in ag districts
9. Hawaii homeowners face hurricane insurance challenges
10. Honolulu regulators decide not to issue any violations for railing collapse at Moana Surfrider
11. Jury selection to begin in civil trial over fatal police shooting in Nuuanu
12. Hawaii wannabe Trumpshooter Ryan Routh offers himself for prisoner swap with US adversaries in letter shared by judge

1. Chinese Naval Vessel Spotted Off Hawaiian Coast
2. Green Signed 313 Bills Into law
3. Prosecutors Win on Appeal -- Maui Hate Criminals to get more time in prison after beating white man with a shovel
4. Lahaina Strong Helping Trump Abolish FEMA--Administration Pretends to Take Mrs Kaniela Ing’s Sex-for-Food Stories Seriously
5. Moszkowicz Forced out as Big Island Chief (now he can try for HPD Chief)
6. Blangiardi Blindsided by Rade Vanic’s Interest in Top Job
7. Lawmakers' Plan To Give $50M To Nonprofits May Be Unconstitutional
8. Solar Scammers Gather on Maui for More Self-Serving Rhetoric

1. Auditor Dings Hawaii ERS Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
2. Green Signs SB933, HB420, HB431
3. Katherine Kealoha’s Dope Dealing Brother Schemes to Get out of Prison
4. Deed Restrictions to Create Locals-Only Housing Market?
5. Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million
6. Maui County Slow to Correct Fire Death-Trap Lahaina Roadways
7. Lawsuit to Challenge $50M Legislative Slush Fund?
8. Burden For Preventing Drownings In Hawaiʻi Falls On Counties — And Residents
9. Downtown property owners willing to pay for sanitation, safety improvements
10. Nanakuli residents want more access to emergency road
11. Trump De-Funds One Tiny Piece of UH Manoa Global Warming Hysteria Generation System
12. Global Warmers Claim Waikiki Stormwater Drainage System Will Fail
13. Military watching Chinese naval ship near Hawaii
14. Usual suspects gin up ICE Controversy
15. Controversial CEO of Domestic Violence Action Center Steps Down

1. Green Signs $4B Lahaina Settlement Bill
2. SB933CD1: Shell Bill Gives Legislators $50M to Dole out to their Friends
3. Maui County Sewer Rates Jump 9%
4. Paid in full. Trust? Still pending.
5. Carpenters Union Announces Plan to Harass Non-Union Contractors
6. Good Jobs Hawaiʻi participants see significant wage gains, UHERO finds
7. Firearm Permits Subject of Hawaii County PD Hearing
8. Maui Bill 76: Restore Farmers' Food Truck Rights
9. Green Signs SB1231 Giving Gays More Opportunity to Get Children
10. ‘Wheeling’ Means UH Will Clutter West Oahu Ag land With Solar Farms
11. Will Solar Incentives Impact Non-Participants?
12. ‘Affordable’ Housing $2,500 / Month
13. ‘Affordable’ Housing $556K per unit

1. 79.1% of Homeowners in Hawaii Will Face a Hidden Home Equity Tax If They Sell
2. Green Signs Condo Insurance Stabilization Law
3. OHA-Connected DTL Selected to Handle Iwilei Master Planning
4. Feds seek forfeiture of luxury Kahala home tied to fraud conviction of former defense contractor
5. HELCO will File New Hu Honua Power Purchase Agreement
6. 94-year-old woman, critically injured in Maili wildfire, dies
7. Island of Retaliation: Kauaʻi Police Chief Job Posting Gets 42 Applicants
8. DMV promises end to registration delays in 'next few weeks'
9. ICE agents stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
10. Green Signs Electric ‘Wheeling’ Law
11. The 25 best high schools for athletes in Hawaii

1. Hawaii’s Police Corruption Scandal: Cash Flow to Crooks Continues
2. July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
3. Building New Schools
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 3, 2025
5. Only 48% of Hawaiʻi HS Seniors Apply for College Financial Aid –Sharply Down After COVID
6. Maui County Gears Up For Legal Challenges From Former Employees
7. Happy News: With No Federal Halfway House in Hawaiʻi, Inmates Remain Far From Home
8. Maili wildfire –Many did not receive Evacuation Notice
9. Waianae lunch turns into fast exit as diners flee from Maili wildfire

1. Green signs bills aimed at alleviating Hawaii’s housing shortage
2. Blue State Blues: One-Party Control? In Hawaiʻi It’s More Like No-Party Control
3. What Did Green Veto?
4. Police chief to face commission on Thursday
5. With old ‘leaders’ ousted, Hawai‘i Tourism Authority finally resolves late invoices, interest payments
6. Third Parties Petitioning for Hawaii Ballot Access
7. Air Force suspends SpaceX project on Pacific atoll

1. Testimony: Bill 9 Debunked by Former AG David Louie
2. Over 400 building permits have been issued for Lahaina rebuilds so far
3. Honolulu rail project streamlines stations and tactics to save money
4. ACLU Very Excited to Learn Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center to house ICE detainees

1. The Verified Complaint In Equity: The Declaration Of Independence
2. The 1840 Hawaiian Constitution and the Fourth of July
3. Green Finalizes Veto Decisions
4. Green: 'Big Beautiful Bill' Cuts MedQuest and EBT Cards
5. Hawaii prison guard gets eight years for sexually abusing inmates
6. Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family
7. DPP to Launch New On-Line Permitting System
8. Shakedown: How Can Hawaii insiders get money out of US military training lease renewal talks?
9. New law cuts retirement benefits for judges
10. City ‘struggling to keep up’ with car registration backlog, impacting thousands on Oahu
11. Former Oahu prison guard sentenced to 8 years in prison for sexually abusing inmates 
12. Retired MFD battalion chief reindicted for sexually assaulting minor
13. Police not helping with immigration arrests –but ACLU Still Trying to Turn ‘No’ into ‘Yes’

Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family

1. In Chile, where science is appreciated, UH Telescope discovers visitor from outside solar system
2. Maui Council panel recesses secret vacation rental deliberations until July 23
3. Leadership overhaul continues at the Hawaii Tourism Authority
4. Hawaii solar companies say Trump’s proposed tax credit cut is a blow to business
5. Big Island soda theft case highlights mental health treatment gaps
6. Crime On Oʻahu Is Down Except In One Category — Murder

1. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
2. Red Hill: BWS Sues Navy for $1.2B
3. Hawai‘i’s state road usage charge begins for electric vehicles on July 1
4. After Much Gnashing of Teeth, OHA Trustees Approve Amended Budget
5. The Only Real Strategy for Tourism is to Make it Cost More
6. After threatening $2.19M fine, DOH admits East Hawaii Urgent Care clinics have resolved paperwork issue
7. Green Line-Item Vetoes $90M in Bogus DoE ‘Maintenance’
8. How Oahu Lawsuit Settlement Neuters Law Against Vacation Rentals
9. 86 drown on the North Shore of Oʻahu in Decade
10. Maui Council advances Honuaʻula project amendments with a slim 5-4 vote in marathon session
11. Lahaina Is Rising Slowly
12. Girl Scouts of Hawaii's new plan to put a troop at every public elementary school in the state
13. Maui Police arrest new MPD employee for sex assault allegations
14. Hawaii Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill, After Calling One Of Its Provisions 'A Grave Violation Of Privacy'

1. Obscure federal laws could preserve birthright citizenship in Alaska, Hawaii, and Territories
2. Lawsuit Challenges “Dam Special Fund” Used to Undermine Constitutional Expenditure Controls
3. Aloha Stadium FAIL: NASED Lists Latest Excuses
4. May Tourist Count up 1%
5. Puna Meth Lab Busted
6. HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
7. Green Signs State Budget
8. Visitors Donated Millions To Maui. Where Did It Go?
9. Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska/Hawaii SNAP carveout
10. More Than $100 Million Cut From Hawaiʻi State Budget
11. ‘Dehumanizing Chaos’: OHA budget pits CEO against Chair of the Board
12. Immigration: Ed Case Thinks for Himself
13. Prosecutors want ex-prison guard to serve 7 years

1. Ethics Complaint Exposes Ties Between Maui Councilmembers, Lahaina Charity Fraud, and Lobbyists
2. July Fourth: Freedom should include your choice of doctor
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 27, 2025
4. Maui Police Launch Digital Firearms Registration System
5. The Lahaina Fire is Proof that ‘Performance Based Regulation’ of HECO is a Failure
6. Questions during Senate hearing deftly sidestepped PUC whistleblower’s allegations
7. After 20 Years of Bumbling--Kauaʻi's Embattled Drug Addiction Treatment Center For Youth Is No Longer Empty  
8. Kai Kahele’s OHA Spending Plan Filled With Bizarre Cuts, Changes  
9. Fish Farm Sues State for Crippling its Business
10. Usual Fruitcakes Freak out over Proposed Big Island Plastic Recycling Plant

1. Twenty Years of Nickels
2. Japan buys Gulf Coast oil, Hawaii doesn’t, thanks to 1920 Jones Act
3. Interstate telehealth to boost local medical care
4. Gays Rewrite State Constitution, State History, and Language
5. Legislators make appetizer of state tourism overseers
6. Police Commission: Problem is too much Mayoral Control, not too little
7. Taxpayers Keep Paying For Disgraced City Officials
8. University of Hawaiʻi’s telescope dedicated in 1970 now honored for enduring impact on space exploration
9. Hawaii Got the Slowdown It Asked For. Now It's Running Scared.
10. Pinata: Eco Groups Start Grabbing for Green Fee Money
11. REMEMBER?  Tulsi Gabbard was once Hawaii’s Most Popular Politician

1. ​UH to tear down 3rd Perfectly Good Maunakea Telescope
2. Should Tulsi Beware India’s Spies?
3. No Surprise: BLNR Rejects Another Army EIS
4. Public Utilities Commission approves whopping 18.1% rate increase for Young Brothers
5. Puna Geothermal Venture to start ‘Repower Project’ to boost production, lower prices
6. Senate GOP adds SNAP waivers for Hawaii in new megabill text—if State can reduce 20% Error Rate
7. How 13 teenagers and some California lawyers rule Hawai’i
8. Hawai‘i interstate telehealth to solve doctor shortage
9. Minimizing Utility Rates Starts With That Goal
10. Let’s Not Confuse Lobbying With Influence-Peddling
11. Another Delay in Kalua Murder Case

1. Moszkowicz will not seek Honolulu Chief Position
2. OHA Withdraws Maunakea Litigation
3. Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???
4. Lahaina Meth Gang Behind ‘Out of Control’ Debate over Vacation Rentals
5. Maui Council set to begin deliberations on short-term rental phase-out bill
6. DPP sorts through thousands of illegal rental notices, collecting only 2% of $90M in vacation rental fines
7. FEMA housing units bring wildfire survivors back to Lahaina
8. Tragically, Stadium project funding won’t be lost over delay
9. Astronomers concerned by federal cuts
10. Government Schools: Sen. Mazie Hirono teaches us a lesson—but not the one she intended
11. Teachers say retaliation reason for job nonrenewal at Laupāhoehoe Community Public Charter School
12. Hawai'i 'Blue' Fee: What does it take to actually get the State to do its job?
13. HPD officer vacancies at 461 with twice as many retirement eligible than incoming
14. Makaha Police Shooting Caused by use of probation instead of incarceration
15. Hawaii County Police Bust Rare Meth Lab
16. Court for homeless meth-heads now permanent
17. Tulsi Gabbard in Trump’s ‘Line of Fire’

1. Inflexible policies continue to hinder Lahaina wildfire recovery
2. HTA Hearing Uncovers an Old Story: The State Still Doesn’t Pay on Time
3. Forgery, Fraud and Theft: Former Top Honolulu Attorney Charged with 22 Felony Counts
4. 'Self-Certification' to Bypass DPP Delays
5. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
6. CNHA Erodes Public Trust in Tourism Management
7. Legal fees for criminal former city officials total in the six figures
8. HPD Chief: Officers Shot Man In Mākaha After He Rammed Their Police Car
9. HPD seizes gambling paraphernalia from illegal game room

1. FULL TEXT: Whistleblower Exposes PUC Parties with HECO Execs--“We are setting ourselves up for the largest cost increase to consumers in history"
2. Feds Rule on Campaign Spending Complaint Four Days after Hawaii Republican Convention tosses out Crazies
3. Former CEO of Guam Helicopter Company Sentenced to 405 Months in Federal Prison for Criminal Aviation Violations
4. Green Adds One More Bill to 'Intent-to-Veto' List
5. Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
6. FAIL: State extends deadline for Aloha Stadium agreement (again)
7. East Maui Water: Usual Suspects grift for control so they can force you to leave island
8. School Choice Works Wonders: How Hawaiʻi's School Transfer System Allows Parents to Rescue Their Kids from Bad Schools
9. Governor Says He May Veto Bill To Reduce Judges' Pensions
10. Maui zoning code must serve residents
11. Hawai‘i County sets cell tower regulations, despite outcry
12. Honolulu Prosecutor: 2023 HPD Fatal Shooting In Pearl City Was Justified
13. City of Honolulu hit with negligence lawsuit over crash at erased crosswalk
14. Penn asks judge for ‘identity verification’ of his mother

1. Lahaina fire rebuild will be complete in 2038 at current pace
2. Bills, Backers, and Blocs: A Data-Driven Look at Lobbying in Hawai‘i
3. Hawaii 2nd-Healthiest State
4. Amended fuel contract expected to save Oahu households nearly $3 a month on electric bills
5. Study: 60,000 Oahu property tax bills artificially inflated, due out in July
6. Vote on Maui vacation rentals could come July 2
7. The Lesson of the Maui Fires: Prioritize Recovery Before the Disaster
8. Mayor expected to file revised $5B city budget today
9. Daily Violence At State Hospital Triggers Workplace Safety Complaint
10. Governor calls for HTA board resignations while lawmakers grill its leaders
11. A Roadmap to Revive Hawai‘i’s Economy and Future
12. House and Senate Allowances: Travel to LA for Movie Premier
13. End of an era: Alexander & Baldwin transfers full ownership of East Maui Irrigation to Mahi Pono
14. PUC to Consider: Should deadbeats get more free Electricity?
15. Trial begins over proposed Kauai hotel project on alleged anthrax site

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 21, 2025
2. Miske Made Possible by “corruption or inaction within local law enforcement and city agencies”
3. Will Maui County Waste $1.6B Buying Up TVRs?
4. Hawaii tourism is 'significantly down,' and experts are worried
5. State Buys $21M Food Processing Machine, it sits unused because Health Department ‘isn’t used to it’
6. Firewise: Long before last week’s 330-acre blaze, Kahikinui community spent years preparing for fires

1. Trump: US Attacks Three Iran Nuke Sites
2. Let Moszkowicz Go
3. Dam Special Fund
4. How Hawaii Democrats Escape Accountability Thanks to Useless Hawaii Republicans
5. $77M HI-5 Fund--Mismanaged For 20 Years
6. Senator Dela Cruz Didn't Disclose Possible Conflict of Interest Before Voting
7. Hawai‘i Tourism Authority board in limbo as lawmakers call for briefing
8. Make Fire Victims Pay $4,500/mo  for a 1br?  Say Anything to Kill TVRs
9. White House Doctors Gabbard Video
10. Former Honolulu attorney indicted in alleged probate fraud

1. Saving for a Home in Hawaii Takes 29 Years
2. Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
3. Barking Sands Land Leases Set to Expire 2027-30
4. Jones Act keeps U.S. lagging in global shipbuilding output
5. Mayor Signs Three Bills to Crack Down on Game Rooms
6. City awards contract to continue construction on second floor of HPD’s Waiʻanae Substation
7. County of Maui, HUD sign $1.6B grant agreement for disaster relief
8. Moszkowicz Out as Hawaii County Chief?
9. $324.1M Lawsuit: HART dysfunction caused cost increases to go off the tracks
10. Lawmakers slash Hawaii school construction request
11. Trial postponed for alleged driver in fatal McKinley hit-and-run
12. Crime: Drones and License Plate Readers in Waikiki

• Let Moszkowicz Go
• Sigh of Relief After Mostly Peaceful Protests

1. AG Terminates Lahaina Investigation
2. Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
3. Bubble: Investors Flood into Hawaii Housing Market
4. UH Grad Student $6.7M Settlement in 2016 Lab Explosion
5. Hawaiʻi Wants More Geothermal Power Plants but Dela Cruz Rewards Campaign Contributors Instead
6. Governor Should Sign Mental Illness Treatment Legislation
7. Threats to Hawaii Judiciary officials on pace to double
8. ‘We want closure’: Oahu family waits for justice more than two years after deadly crash
9. Homeless Camp Burns Under H-1 Freeway
10. Mayor Blangiardi signs new laws targeting illegal game rooms
11. Fishing council to ask Trump to lift fishing ban in Papahanaumokuakea

1. Hawaii Democrats Outraged Over Ban on Juvenile Sex Change  
2. Wahiawa Veteran Wins in Class Action Lawsuit Against Iran
3. HMSA: 2nd Worst Health Insurance Company in USA
4. Maui residents’ recovery sees gains, but health and housing challenges persist
5. Trump ‘incensed’ – Gabbard “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”
6. Rade Vanic picked to serve as interim Honolulu police chief
7. Honolulu's Effort to Fast-Track Affordable Housing Projects Hasn't Worked
8. Queens Urologist: ‘There’s No Wrong Way To ‘Delete’ Zionists’
9. BJ Penn back in the courtroom, jury trial set
10. Testimony continues over bill to ban thousands of Maui vacation rentals
11. What if the 100% Renewable Energy Law is the Wrong Goal
12. New Homeless Drug Addict Behavior: Laying in Road and Walking on Freeway
13. Oʻahu Wants To Crack Down On Homeless Bus Riders
14. Shakedown: Another Bogus Surfrider Beach Pollution Report

1. Lawsuit by State Hospital Medical Director Details How Retaliation Games Keep Hospital Understaffed
2. Why Hawaii lawmakers should adopt interstate telehealth
3. Eight apply to serve as interim Honolulu police chief
4. Honolulu City Council Votes To Shake Up Its Leadership
5. Update: Stories from the ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’
6. Trump contradicts Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment on Iran’s nuclear program
7. It’s Not Just Tourists: Hawaiʻi Residents Drown At Alarming Rates 
8. After Master Lease is Signed, UXO Cleanup to Become Big Business for 8a Contractors
9. Drones Could Be Dispatched As First Responders To Crime Scenes In Hawaiʻi
10. State survey reveals workforce housing would keep Hawai‘i educators in classrooms
11. Happy News: State Spends no Money to Stop Feral Chickens

1. Matt Elliott approved by BOR as next UH Mānoa athletics director
2. HMSA’s ‘Take-it-or-leave-it’ Contracts ‘Fundamentally Unfair’
3. Honolulu City Council leadership changes proposed
4. After Engineering the Woke Ouster of Isaac Choy, CNHA is back at HTA for ‘Mo Money
5. Union COVID Cash Bonanza Continues: $124.4 Million In Pandemic Hazard Pay For Prisons
6. Affordable Housing Fraud?  ‘Still working on it’
7. Lawsuit Asks Court To Halt Haʻikū Stairs Demolition, Citing State Flip-Flop
8. BYU-Hawaii alum killed as Utah ‘No Kings’ protesters shoot at each other
9. ICE agents arrest Russian woman at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
10. Hawaii DOH could seize unregulated THC products in 2026
11. Heated moments at Makaha meeting on transitional homes project
12. Fiber cut causes outage in Windward Oahu

1. Sigh of Relief After Mostly Peaceful Protests
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 14, 2025
3. Affordable Housing Scam was Easy to Pull Off
4. City seeks developer for Iwilei transit-oriented housing
5. Report: Honolulu Inflation Among Worst In Nation
6. Investigators: High Winds, Rotor Flap Caused Fatal Kauaʻi Helicopter Crash
7. Kidnapper Issac Pascua arrested in Texas after escape from Hawaii jail

1. A blue wave is helping rock the boat on Jones Act reform
2. Intent to Veto
3. Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
4. How To Protect Politicians from Ethics Investigations?  Eliminate Staff
5. No Robots Day: Ed Case Thinks for Himself on Defense, Immigration
6. Army to Trade Oahu Leases for Pohakuloa Renewal?
7. Goal of new partnership of hospitals: More specialty doctors for Big Island, fewer medical trips to Oʻahu
8. Elliott expected to be confirmed as Hawaii AD on Monday

1. June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
2. $294K Income Needed for Family of Four in Hawaii  
3. Hawaii: Fewest Boat Owners Per Capita
4. 37 Current and Former Hawaii Police Officers Call for ‘Military Government’
5. BJ Penn Legal, Mental Issues Growing
6. Moszkowicz rescinded resignation when he learned it’s the responsibility of the Honolulu Police Commission and not the mayor to select interim chief
7. Kauai: Police Chief Todd Raybuck retires; Kalani Ke takes over leadership
8. Maui: Meth-addled firebugs continue to accumulate on Holomua Road
9. Tokuda Soft on Fentanyl

1. DoH Coverup? Health Dep't Fines Hilo Medical Practice $2.19M for Minor Paperwork Violation
2. Lawsuit: HTA bosses destroy Convention Center Roof in quest for retaliation
3. House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair  
4. Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
5. HART Designs Final Six Stations to Be Harder Than Ever for Riders to Reach
6. Who’s Really to Blame for Hawaii Overtourism? Airbnb Pushes Back
7. DOE Called For 12 New Schools In ‘Ewa A Decade Ago. It’s Built Two
8. New laws will soften criminal prosecution of juveniles in Hawaii
9. After Nine Months in Kapolei, Homeless HONU returning to Old Stadium Park
10. B.J. Penn arrested — again
11. A Navy Plan To Develop Barbers Point Will Erase History

1. Cost of Bills Index: Hawaii 32% Above US Median
2. Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
3. Hawaii 3rd-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
4. Strategy: Make Tourists Pay More
5. No Soda or Candy on EBT Card?
6. Blangiardi on ICE: City to exercise "appropriate judgment" toward immigration law enforcement
7. SHOPO Drives Search for new Kauai Police Chief
8. Crime: Waianae a Sacrifice Zone for Decades
9. Fentanyl overdose deaths drop in Hawaii as meth-related fatalities spike
10. Burials Bring Kauai Jobsite to Screeching Halt—Fines and Lawsuits Begin

1. Hawaii justices examine doctors’ ability to challenge denied health insurance claims
2. Kauai Sewer Rates a Model for Honolulu Council?
3. Miske Crime Family Will Keep Some of His Money? Prosecutors Agree To Negotiate Settlement Over Asset Forfeiture
4. Next Scandal: City’s new housing agency a Ewa Villages Retread
5. Hawaiʻi Foster System In Crisis: Kids Still Sleeping In Offices, Hotels
6. HECO scheme dies whimpering death
7. New policy ‘czar’ will coordinate Hawaii’s role in Red Hill fuel cleanup
8. Mission Valley man beaten and left for dead by Bouncers during Hawaii vacation
9. Protective order against former UFC champ B.J. Penn extended

1. Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of 'Distributing Machine Guns'
2. How Maui Bill 9 Would Destroy TVRs – and still not Create any New Housing for Local Residents
3. Case splits from Democrat vote on shipping bill
4. State Republican lawmakers meet with the White House, federal officials
5. Hawaiʻi County Council seeks more oversight with passage of vacation rental bill
6. Hurricane insurance is getting more expensive, harder to find in Hawaii
7. Hawaiʻi Agriculture Dep’t Moves To Broaden Allowed Agricultural Uses
8. SB935: Dela Cruz Cuts Judges’ Pension Benefits
9. Report shows use of Hawaiian language growing at home
10. Girl Scouts, Teachers Union Headline Kauai Gay Pride Parade
11. Twice-deported immigrant faces prison sentence
12. Drones Deliver Millions Of Mosquitos to Prevent Bird Extinctions In Hawai‘i

1. Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
2. Hawai‘i children hit hard by high cost of housing
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 6, 2025
4. In Hawaii Only Military Water Systems are Fluoridated
5. DEI Is Alive and Well in Hawai‘i
6. Legislature: “Not factions, they’re prison gangs.”
7. Maui Council gears up for pivotal vacation rental phase-out bill hearing
8. Green: Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill a 'Grave Violation Of Privacy'
9. Hawaiʻi To Settle Teacher’s Claim He Was Fired Over False Abuse Allegation
10. Hawaii’s ombudsman facing chronic issues
11. Ridding state Capitol of water leaks will not be complete by 2027
12. More Bogus Sunscreen: Fears and Lies
13. Waianae Traffic enforcement “dissuaded criminal activity, and resulted in several notable arrests”

1. "Diversified ag" rhetoric doesn't match reality   
2. The Unseen Stopper Committees
3. REPORT: Hawaii Math Instruction 'Unacceptable'
4. Grassroot: Democratic Congressional Staffers focus on Jones Act
5. Maui Council approves tax-rate hikes
6. More Electric Rate Hikes Coming
7. Council Leadership Shakeup After Sewer Fee Vote
8. Will Police Commission Pick Next Chief?
9. Officials expect federal funding to continue for Honolulu rail project
10. Price of Wokeism: DAGS takes on convention center project despite ‘aggressive’ timetable
11. 'NCIS Hawaii' Studio Empty, Overgrown by Weeds
12. Beth Fukumoto: Holding Billions Of Dollars, These State Funds Need Scrutiny
13. Maui Council approves staff pay raises after contentious debate on transparency
14. Samoa US Nationals Illegal Voting in Alaska, Oregon, Hawaii
15. Teachers at Hilo public charter school put on administrative leave after raising concerns about contract breaches

1. Governor Green Releases 'Intent-to-Veto' List
2. Supreme Court to Decide: Are HMSA Physician Contracts “oppressive, unconscionable, and unenforceable”? 
3. Short-Staffed HPD 20-minute Wait for 911 Callers to Reach an Operator
4. ACLU of Hawai‘i (again) asks county leaders not to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
5. City launches funeral assistance program for COFA families
6. Oʻahu racetrack gets the green light
7. Residents want sustained enforcement on Diamond Head homeless
8. Remember the Office of the Ombudsman?

1. VIDEO: Rep Elle Cochran Calls for Trump Administration to Investigate Lahaina Corruption
2. Hawaii’s energy future: Red tape is in the way
3. Mystery: Is Kouchi Really Planning to Retire from Senate?
4. How Much Say Should Gays Have Over What Your Kids Learn In Public Schools?
5. Hawaii passes bill expanding insurer of last resort, revives hurricane fund
6. Hawaii Expands Lobbying Law to Cover Procurement Activities
7. City Attorney Delays Raise Price Tag In $3.25M UPW Garbage Settlement
8. Man facing murder trial in death of daughter makes a plea offer
9. Schizo tweeker caught smuggling pound-quantities of meth into prison—2 dead

1. Babylon Bee challenges Hawaii law criminalizing political memes, satire
2. Guilty on All Counts: Big Island Affordable Housing Fraudsters
3. Lawsuit Alleges More Affordable Housing Fraud
4. Matt Elliott selected as the next UH Mānoa athletics director
5. Honolulu Sewer Fee Hike: How They Voted
6. Mercado Kim News: Thomas Aiu Tries for Chief Again
7. Honolulu City Council adopts HART’s $968M budget
8. Key amendments proposed for vacation rental phase-out bill ahead of Council committee hearing
9. Lahaina Front Street building manager fights looters again and again
10. Blackmail:  Dela Cruz, Kim Threaten UH Cancer Center (again)
11. New jail: Green says he will not knuckle under to ACLU
12. DAGS now part of project to repair Hawaiʻi Convention Center's leaky roof
13. Capitol, Convention Center, Stadium Are All Great Landfill Sites
14. HSTA Member Guilty of Child Molestation
15. New Hawaii law aims to better protect children from torture
16. Oahu jail on lockdown as officers search for contraband

1. UH: Feds Cut Funding for Sea Level Hysteria
2. Hawaii Child Molester Caught by Feds -- gets 41 years
3. Kapolei Video: Druggie Deported as Parking Lot Lawyers Interfere
4. Lahaina Calls for Resignation of Absent Rep Elle Cochran
5. SHOPO Bags 3 of 4 Police Chiefs
6. 40% Astronomy Cuts - Beyond TMT Cancellation
7. Maui Council ‘Affordable’ Homes Plan—Property Tax Increase on ALL rental homes
8. Honolulu Council to review city’s proposed $5.14 billion budget for approval
9. Community Solar: Total Fail – “We just want out”
10. 252 Days to Get Residential Building Permit
11. New Bill Could Offer Insurance Relief for Hawai‘i Condo and Home Owners
12. Milestone agreement to strengthen health care in West Hawaiʻi
13. EPA Terminates $14M Waianae Homeless Puuhonua Grant

1. HPD Chief Logan Quits--Moszkowicz to Return from Big Island
2. Hawaii 3rd Worst Economy in USA
3. Hawaii County Launches Community Survey
4. Share your feedback on HPD's compliance with CALEA and more
5. State Court Shakedown Extracts $700M over Mis-labeled Blood Thinners--oil companies next
6. Who Killed TMT?
7. Gay flag to fly over Hawaii State Capitol for the first time
8. Cost of HECO Wildfire Safety Plan Suddenly Jumps to $350,000,000
9. Hawaiʻi's First State Fire Marshal In Decades Has A Long To-Do List
10. Hawaii's film incentives stay; Governor Green vetoes controversial bill
11. We taxpayers won’t have a say in decisions on AD, stadium
12. PUC Anticipates Explosive Growth in Shared Solar
13. State Housing Czar Demands Church Return Housing For Homeless Elderly
14. U.S. defends detention, deportation of military wife in Honolulu, noting ‘unusual activity’

1. Auditor: HTA has been promising 'Destination Management' since 2005
2. Twenty Years of Hawaii Recycling: 10th Audit Also Exposes Fraud
3. Hawaii Driver Education: 59 Years Without a Plan
4. Honolulu Sewer Rates Are Likely To Go Up — A Lot
5. Maui Council Budget: Musk has left the building, and so goes our excuse for tax hikes and bloated spending
6. Honolulu Police Can’t Spend Entire Budget Because It Can’t Fill Positions
7. Following the evolution of Miske’s living trust

1. Red tape strangling Hawaii's energy future
2. Tax Liens: Light at the End?
3. Pearl Harbor to Commemorate 80th Anniversary of the End of WWII
4. Some Hawaii Republicans try to Rationalize their Support for BJ Penn for Governor
5. Senate WAM Chair Dela Cruz gets Defensive
6. Green Fee Tip of a Half-Billion Dollar Pyramid
7. Cataluna: Green Fee Doesn’t do enough to make Hawaii Like it was During COVID Shutdowns
8. Legislators Push Gigantic Land Swap to Grift Luxe Alii Place Offices for Themselves
9. Fully funded Olowalu fire station on hold over ‘iwi kupuna discovered 2 years ago in subdivision
10. Media to Regain Access to Police Scanners?

1. Next Tulsi?  Mrs Kaniela Ing Finally makes the Big Time--with the Trump Administration!
2. Visitor Industry Grows Again in April 2025
3. Trump’s Plan to Land SpaceX Rockets on Johnston Atoll Naturally Spurs Eco-Lawsuit
4. Hawaii Loses TMT: Trump Budget Redirects Telescope Funding to Chile, Where Science is Appreciated
5. Hawaii Extends Green Energy Fees Lunacy to Ocean
6. Car dealers frustrated by city’s 8,000 title, registration backlog
7. Big island covered playcourt cost $1,545 per square foot
8. Only FBI has what it takes to Clear Homeless Meth Addicts from Mapunapuna
9. Pearl City Graves Being Robbed by Homeless Meth Addicts AGAIN

1. Hawaii cops sued over DUI arrests of sober drivers
2. Kauai Police Commission seeks public's input for new KPD Police Chief
3. Following Biden's Lead, Trump Shuts Down Hawaii Job Corps for Second Year in a Row
4. Lahaina Rep Elle Cochran Tangled in Lies After Missing 85% of Legislative Session
5. KSBE Operatives Urge Governor To Veto Bills That Streamline Permitting Process
6. Meet Miske’s “inner circle”
7. Appeals court rules Buntenbah must forfeit $250,000 mortgage
8. Developer Accused Of Campaign Fraud Allowed to Travel out of Country While Out On Bail
9. Uncertain Outcomes Raised In Phasing Out Maui Short-Term Rentals
10. Aloha Stadium $20M to demolish
11. Parents, students call for firing of Kahuku principal after turbulent year
12. Maui police officer arrested for sex assault
13. Moody’s upgrades Hawaiian Electric Industries’ credit ratings, positive outlook
14. B.J. Penn wanted by Hawaii island police after missing court date

1. Can the Trump Administration save Honolulu from wasting $2.5B on Sand Island Sewage Plant?
2. DBEDT Lowers Hawaii Economic Growth Projections
3. Joe Gedeon Appointed to Fill Gene Ward's House Seat
4. New Republican Chair Pledges to Focus on Winning Elections
5. Hawaii Democrats Tout Marijuana Crackdown Legislation
6. Hawaii Firearms Bills Passed in 2025
7. Failed ‘Assault Rifle’ Ban a Sign of Things to Come?
8. PUC to Require MLP to Register as Water Utility so they can be forced to choke off water supplies to drive up the cost of housing and make more people leave Maui
9. Legislators to Abolish HTA?
10. Maui fire survivors could see first paychecks from $4B settlement this year
11. Hawaiʻi solar industry to be gutted as State, Federal Subsidies are Killed Off
12. Panda Express And A Bathroom? Honolulu Airport’s $14M "Upgrades" Spark Debate
13. Assault video exposes use of untrained guards at Oahu jail
14. Guards Selling Drugs to Inmates:  Another Multiple drug overdose in Halawa
15. Forced out by SHOPO, Kauaʻi Police Chief finally announces retirement date
16. City grant program for rail-affected businesses doesn’t amount to much
17. Lawmakers demand answers from Navy on dummy bombing plan of remote Hawaiian island
18. AI Hallucination? Hawaiʻi Attorney Cited For Submitting A Fake Case