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

1. Neighborhood Board Election results now available online
2. SB1396 Green Fee: Green Signs TAT Increase, Promises to Waste it all on Global Warming
3. Lawyer Outlines Cruise Industry Case Against Green Fee
4. Honolulu City Council rushing 60% sewer fee hike – Afraid Trump Administration Would Eliminate Need for Sand Island Project, thus eliminating excuse for rate hikes
5. Will Hawaii’s New $100M Climate Fee From Tourists Actually Fix Anything?
6. Developer applies for permit to demolish Aloha Stadium
7. Want To Diversify The Local Economy? Make Hawaiʻi Pro-Business
8. Hawaiʻi Has A New Ghost Gun Law. Will It Make A Difference?
9. Lunch Debt And Book Fines Are The Last Barriers To Graduation

1. Delegates Elect New Hawaii Republican Party Chairman
2. Bill 47: Hawaii County Developers to Build TVR Subdivisions  
3. Feds bust Chinese-Canadian fraud ring operating in Hawaii targeting seniors
4. As Big as Rail: $10.1B Sewer Rate Hike Heading for Third Reading
5. PRP: Grab Property tax Revenues to Pork Up Aloha Stadium Project Even More
6. ‘Experts’ Coming to Hawaii to Impose Federal Consent Decree on Prisons—Mass Release for Hardened Criminals is Next
7. State’s Top Economist Retires
8. Hawaii’s New Cruise Tax Is Entering Some Uncharted Legal Waters
9. Rep Kila: Do not scrutinize DHHL.  Let them waste money as they see fit.
10. Honolulu Sees Doubling Of Vacation Rental Registrations Under New Rules
11. B.J. Penn arrested in Hawaii charged with abuse of family or household member

1. VIDEO: $4000 Dela Cruz Campaign Contribution buys Shouting Match in Hilo
2. Will Hawaiʻi's Supreme Court Curb Governor's Power To Suspend Laws?
3. In 2026 Kauai Council will Lose Four Incumbents
4. Zombie News: Meth Camp Returns to Amala Place Four Years after Fentanyl

1. Keanu Sai News: Another Sovereignty Scammer Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud
2. 2025 Legislative Special Funds -- 0 for 86
3. No, we don't have low property taxes
4. VIDEO: Honolulu Rail--We're not going to do THAT Again
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 23, 2025
6. Time to fight back against antivax gaslighting
7. Laid-off federal workers fill 62 of state’s 4,000 vacant positions
8. Gutted Democrat Bench Thin so … Brian Schatz?
9. 771 Medical Professionals get student loan repayment

1. Hawaii: Where Clean Energy Projects Go to Die
2. Audit: How to Speed up Building Permits
3. Grassroot Council Testimony: Cutting Red Tape to Build Housing
4. Bill 2591 Changes Kauai Zoning to Allow Farmers' Markets
5. VIDEO: Grassroot legislative wrap-up tour
6. HI-EMA Fuel Tank in Violation Since 1997
7. 'Evil' teen bullies get taste of vigilante 'justice' after they were filmed beating disabled woman
8. In yearlong wait for vote on short-term rental ban, Maui condo sales, prices have dropped significantly
9. Rail line a ‘curse’
10. 93% Reduction: Army proposes giving up leased Oahu land
11. Hawai‘i County Council passes first reading of FY 2025-2026 budget
12. 'Tesla road rage guy' alleged Hawaii attack is a 'failure of the system,' attorney says
13. Trump to the Rescue: After pathetic State Judiciary Sets Hime Free,  Man who terrorized UH Manoa student now facing deportation to Micronesia
14. Keanu Sai News: Another Sovereignty Scammer Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud

1. Hawaii: A far-left state trying to hijack U.S. energy policy
2. Trump Squeeze Leads to Suspension of 'Faculty Special Salary Adjustments' at UH
3. UHERO Survey Documents Declining Physical and Mental Health
4. Hawaii Mortgage Delinquency Jumps
5. Medical Malpractice? Hawaii 5th Worst
6. Miske Drug Overdose Death Shapes Legal Strategy to keep Money in Family
7. Mokulele Methamphetamines News: 33-Time Loser Finally Catches a FEDERAL Case
8. After HPD Raid, CBD Dealer Shocked, SHOCKED to Discover His Products Contained THC
9. Total Fail: HECO ‘Time-of-Use Rates’ Abandoned
10. Bill 47: Hawaiʻi County Council revisits more oversight on the short-term rental industry
11. $70M to rebuild Lahaina homeless shelter?
12. How The Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor Has Gone From Cash Cow To Eyesore

1. VIDEO: Senators Grill Green over COVID Shutdowns
2. Feds Launch Process for Potential Offshore Mineral Lease Sale Near American Samoa
3. Anti-Development Activism Poisons the ‘Aina
4. Lawsuit Challenges Reopening of Pacific Monument
5. Zero homes sold within typical Maui residents’ financial reach in 2024
6. Tax Hikes Coming: COR ‘adjusts’ projection, creating $550M Gap
7. DHHL sitting on federal grants since 2008--$75.9M unspent
8. Hawaii Convention Center $64M repair project in limbo
9. ACLU Hawaii prepares to sue HPD over ‘concerning trend’ of sober drivers arrested for DUI
10. HB126: Prosecutor Alm Pushes Back on Forfeiture
11. Illegal gambling arrests on Oahu increased in 2024
12. Shakedown: Surfrider’s Bogus Bacteria Report Targets Turtle Bay and Whalers Cove

• Anti-Development Activism Poisons the ‘Aina
• Conspiracy Theorists Hijack Hawaii County General Plan
• Maui County Responsible for Lahaina Fire

1. Honolulu Ranks #3 in U.S. for Micro-Housing — New Study Finds
2. Study: More Housing Units Built-But Fewer Available for Residents
3. Hawaii 'Clean' Hydrogen to Come from Oil Refinery
4. Brenton Awa vs Tokuda for Congress?
5. Alien Enemies: Gabbard Staff Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
6. BWS Votes to Give State Water Commission control of Oahu – First Step, dumping water into dry Waianae streambeds
7. Lahaina: Infrastructure in Just 100 Days
8. Congresswoman asks UNOS to change kidney allocation policy following HNN investigation
9. Geothermal energy solutions need study
10. Opportunity to pay less for electricity during sunlight hours yields mixed results
11. Manager Alleges Potential Fraud In Homeless Village Construction
12. Criminals Mailing Illegal Fireworks To Hawaiʻi Mostly Get Away With It 
13. City moves to take over property where family has been squatting for decades
14. HGEA finalizes $41 million COVID hazard pay settlement

1. Cleaning up Hawaii’s permitting mess
2. Gov. Green on military land leases: ‘I think that we will be able to settle pretty straightforwardly’
3. Activists surprised by Army’s willingness to let go of Makua Valley land lease
4. Claim by Miske’s mother to represent his granddaughter’s interests denied by judge, at least for now
5. Soft on Crime: After 10 State Felony Convictions, Meth Dealer Finally Catches a FEDERAL Case
6. Local fireworks industry contends with possible sky-high tariffs on China
7. Bill To Guard Against Imitation Hawaiian Tea Could End Up Hurting Industry
8. Hu Honua Bioenergy Files (another) State Antitrust Lawsuit Against HECO
9. Nuisance money: City Council approves $40K Liquor Commission settlement

1. Hawaii has third-lowest percentage of single-mother households, study reveals
2. Big Beautiful Blue Collar Tax Cuts Coming—but Hawaii Legislators Want EBT Cards
3. Legislators Will Try to Use EBT Card as Excuse for Special Session
4. Hawaii: New housing units are coming online at the lowest rate since the 1940s
5. Retirement: Social Security to be Garnished to pay Student Loans?
6. Retirement: Meth-Head Finally Agrees to Accept Shelter After 40 years on Streets
7. Usual Suspects: Today they are Whining About Rocket Launches from Johnston Island
8. Kahuku Coach Removed Over One Complaint

1. 2025 Legislative Also-Rans  
2. Rules Vote a Self-Serving Scam to Take Over Hawaii Republican Party
3. Six Weeks to Deadline -- Sketchy, Blurry Plans to Pay for Aloha Stadium
4. Green Campaigning in Washington DC
5. Cruise Lines Claim Inclusion in Hawaii's New Hotel Tax Bill is Unconstitutional
6. Kona coffee farmers devastated by loss of deported workers
7. Blundering Gabbard Fiasco: Aide pressed analyst to redo intel on Venezuela gang
8. Hawaii Just Won't Give Up Its Harsh Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws
9. Recktenwald to Retire in October
10. Republicans to Elect Party Chair
11. Loser Complains About GOP Selection Process
12. State agency’s preschool production pipeline bulges while other projects hit roadblocks
13. Soft on Crime: Steroid-induced Road Rage Guy has 20 Year Record
14. We Moved From Hawaii to Italy. Our Mortgage Is Less Than Our Rent Was