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Entries for 'Court House News'
| Monday, March 2, 2026 |
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Hawaii high court takes up 20-year fight over retiree health benefits
By Court House News @ 11:32 PM :: 327 Views :: Labor
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... A class of roughly 100,000 former public employees returned to court in a case that has outlasted careers, mayoral terms and a chief justice ....
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| Sunday, February 22, 2026 |
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States sue Trump administration for terminating 'Green New Deal' grants
By Court House News @ 12:19 AM :: 667 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News
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... OMB Director Russell Vought posted online that the Energy Department would be terminating “nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda” ....
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| Saturday, February 21, 2026 |
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Bribery Scandal Looms over Legislature, but they make time to deal with Feral Chickens
By Court House News @ 3:15 PM :: 1143 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... lawmakers debated bills surrounding sports betting, legal rights for coral reefs and feral chickens, but an ongoing bribery investigation cast a shadow over the capitol ....
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| Saturday, February 21, 2026 |
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HUD Moves to Kick Illegals out of Public Housing
By Court House News @ 2:52 PM :: 687 Views :: National News
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... a new proposed rule to require proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible status for every resident in HUD-funded housing, including “mixed status households” ....
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| Friday, February 20, 2026 |
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s one-man tariff war
By Court House News @ 12:52 PM :: 556 Views :: National News, Taxes
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... In anticipation of the high court’s ruling, big-name companies like Costco, Revlon and Bumble Bee Foods filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International Trade to secure tariff refunds for billions of dollars ....
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| Friday, February 13, 2026 |
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With military land leases expiring, Hawaii moves into unique negotiating position
By Court House News @ 2:46 PM :: 665 Views :: Land Use, Military
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... Green has two years to convince the feds to pay $10 billion for some of the most critical military training grounds in the Pacific ....
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| Thursday, February 5, 2026 |
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FTC settles with prescription drug middleman giant to lower pricing
By Court House News @ 12:01 AM :: 529 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... The agreement orders Express Scripts to offer plan members the lowest available cost for medicine like insulin rather than artificially inflated prices ....
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| Friday, January 30, 2026 |
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Kaneshiro-Mitsunaga Conspiracy: Judge Allows Lawsuit to Proceed
By Court House News @ 12:38 AM :: 984 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... Federal prosecutors couldn't make criminal bribery charges stick for a former Honolulu prosecutor and engineering firm executives, but civil versions of the claims may live to see another trial ....
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| Wednesday, January 28, 2026 |
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Hawaii Baseball Coach at Center of MLB Gambling Scandal
By Court House News @ 12:21 PM :: 1223 Views :: Gambling
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... Donny Kadokawa is one of the key witnesses in Yasiel Puig's trial over charges the former MLB star lied to federal agents about his dealings with an illegal bookmaker ....
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| Saturday, January 10, 2026 |
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34 years Later: Will State Supreme Court let Rapist Weasel Out?
By Court House News @ 12:21 PM :: 1055 Views :: Maui County, Judiciary
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... Granillo struck her in the parking lot, dragged her into his car, drove her to a beach, held her at knifepoint and repeatedly sexually assaulted and beat her before she escaped ....
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| Tuesday, December 30, 2025 |
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Judge allows immigrants to challenge ICE courthouse arrests
By Court House News @ 1:29 PM :: 860 Views :: Judiciary
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... The court has already issued preliminary orders staying the courthouse arrest policies within ICE’s San Francisco area of responsibility, which covers Northern California, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands ....
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| Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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"I am the mayor. I apologize to no one."
By Court House News @ 11:11 AM :: 2228 Views :: Maui County, Police
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... in the end, even lawyers didn't want this garbage case that fooled 'judge' Bissen ....
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| Tuesday, December 16, 2025 |
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Booking.com fights to revive challenge to Hawaii tax rule
By Court House News @ 11:00 PM :: 958 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... Hawaii laws levy a general excise tax on accommodation bookings but the state insists Booking.com can't preemptively challenge the law before actually paying the tax ....
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| Saturday, November 22, 2025 |
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Texas Copies Hawaii Plavix Suit
By Court House News @ 12:30 PM :: 930 Views :: Health Care
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... the companies say Paxton is seeking to cash in due to a $700 million settlement agreement they reached with Hawaii ....
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| Wednesday, November 19, 2025 |
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Gun owner fights silencer ban at Ninth Circuit
By Court House News @ 1:51 PM :: 1149 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Suppressors are outright banned in eight states including Hawai'i ....
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| Friday, November 14, 2025 |
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Hawaii faces constitutional showdown over climate tax on cruise ships
By Court House News @ 11:29 PM :: 1619 Views :: Jones Act, Taxes, Tourism
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... the Cruise Lines International Association and several Hawaii tour operators are asking for a preliminary injunction to block the law ....
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| Friday, November 14, 2025 |
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Former death row inmate sentenced to life for sex trafficking in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 2:07 AM :: 2120 Views :: Honolulu County, Higher Education, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... Isaiah McCoy, who exploited multiple victims including a minor, received life in prison in federal court, in a volatile sentencing hearing marked by his outbursts ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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Alleged Chinese Spy Given Hawaii Mansion
By Court House News @ 1:15 PM :: 1934 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, COVID-19
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... Linda Sun was formerly a high-ranking aide in New York’s government. Now, she and her husband face potential prison time ....
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| Wednesday, November 5, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG joins suit over Trump’s limits for FEMA grants
By Court House News @ 11:18 AM :: 1287 Views :: Maui County, National News, Hawaii State Government
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...attempt by Trump to curtail the agency’s programs and shift the burden of emergency management back to individual states, as it was before Katrina....
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| Monday, October 20, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Filed Over Kamehameha Admission Policy
By Court House News @ 11:45 PM :: 2398 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12
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... The group challenges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2006 decision in Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, which upheld the schools’ admissions policy by an 8-7 vote ....
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| Saturday, October 18, 2025 |
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Former Maui resident pleads guilty in fentanyl trafficking case
By Court House News @ 5:44 PM :: 1464 Views :: Maui County, Drugs
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... man with 11 prior convictions, including five drug felonies in Hawaii, admitted to shipping nearly a pound of fentanyl to Maui ....
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| Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
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Kaiser health care workers strike for better wages
By Court House News @ 10:37 AM :: 1229 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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... Thousands of Kaiser employees in California, Oregon and Hawaii organized a five-day work stoppage after negotiations for higher pay and other demands stagnated ....
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| Thursday, October 9, 2025 |
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Corruption trial witness can pursue conspiracy claims against Honolulu officials
By Court House News @ 1:16 PM :: 1911 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... The ruling is a surprising shift in former Mitsunaga & Associates employee Laurel Mau’s favor, after a long-running legal battle that dates back more than a decade ....
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| Thursday, October 9, 2025 |
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Family argues helicopter maker is liable in fatal Hawaii crash
By Court House News @ 3:52 AM :: 1417 Views :: Kauai County, Judiciary, Tourism
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... a case testing manufacturer immunity under a 1994 federal law ....
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| Friday, October 3, 2025 |
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Hawaii limits on concealed carry headed for Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:04 PM :: 1598 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Aloha State gun owners argue Hawaii’s regulations on concealed handguns mirror the New York law that the high court shot down three years ago ....
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| Tuesday, September 30, 2025 |
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Red Hill: Judge Rules Against Navy
By Court House News @ 4:03 AM :: 1976 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Kobayashi found that these disputes over material facts cannot be resolved without a full trial ....
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| Saturday, September 27, 2025 |
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Feds: Hawaii has until Oct 27 to remove all References to 'Gender Ideology' from Sex-Ed Programs
By Court House News @ 1:16 PM :: 2235 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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... Hawaii joins a 16-state lawsuit filed Friday in an effort to keep transsexualizing your children ....
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| Wednesday, September 24, 2025 |
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Judge signals six-month delay of Hawaii jet fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 2:17 AM :: 2507 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Military
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... Courts previously allowed the Navy a yearlong stay in the case ....
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| Tuesday, September 23, 2025 |
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Regional pressure builds on Kaiser as Hawaii strike called
By Court House News @ 3:38 PM :: 2427 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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... Kaiser workers in Hawaii joined three other Pacific states in voting for a strike, citing unsafe staffing levels and wage disparities with mainland counterparts ....
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| Saturday, September 20, 2025 |
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Court: Hawaii has Right to Sue Trump over Election Changes
By Court House News @ 3:07 AM :: 3118 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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...Trump attempted in a March executive order to implement a proof of citizenship requirement for voting and ban mail-in ballots received after Election Day....
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| Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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Hawaii gang enforcer gets 30 years, ending landmark case
By Court House News @ 11:31 PM :: 4258 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police, Politicians, Drugs
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... drive-by shootings and armed robberies as part of the notorious Miske Enterprise ....
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| Friday, July 4, 2025 |
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Hawaii prison guard gets eight years for sexually abusing inmates
By Court House News @ 2:18 AM :: 1826 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... A federal judge opted to add more years onto the correctional officer's sentence than the "shockingly low" two to three years recommended by federal guidelines....
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| Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 11:58 PM :: 2751 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... A federal judge is deciding whether the U.S. Navy should be held liable for 543 Clean Water Act violations at its Red Hill fuel facility ....
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| Friday, June 13, 2025 |
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Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
By Court House News @ 2:54 PM :: 2148 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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"...they have grandparents who just passed away recently or moved into assisted living, so now they can move back home and live in that house....”
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| Tuesday, June 10, 2025 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of 'Distributing Machine Guns'
By Court House News @ 2:14 AM :: 1865 Views :: Second Amendment
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...The states accuse the Trump administration of hiding violations of federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns in a settlement agreement with manufactures of forced reset triggers....
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| Friday, May 30, 2025 |
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Hawaii cops sued over DUI arrests of sober drivers
By Court House News @ 1:23 AM :: 2917 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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... ACLU says Honolulu police routinely arrest sober drivers to falsely boost their numbers to secure federal funding ....
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| Friday, May 16, 2025 |
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Hawaii governor defends emergency housing powers at state Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:46 AM :: 3231 Views :: Maui County, Development, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... a case challenging Governor Josh Green's use of emergency powers to address the state's affordable housing crisis ....
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| Wednesday, May 7, 2025 |
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US Navy liable for fuel leak that sickened military families in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 11:03 PM :: 3455 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... In the long-awaited preliminary decision, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded 17 plaintiffs damages ....
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| Thursday, May 1, 2025 |
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Hawaii legislature approves $20 billion state budget
By Court House News @ 1:38 PM :: 2253 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Hawaii lawmakers passed the budget for the next two years and began voting on more than 200 bills as the legislative session draws to a close ....
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| Saturday, April 26, 2025 |
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Hawaii lawmakers reject bill to legalize sports gambling
By Court House News @ 4:30 AM :: 1502 Views :: Gambling
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... Hawaii lawmakers failed to reconcile House and Senate versions of a sports betting bill, leaving the state without legal wagering ....
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| Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
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Former death row inmate convicted of sex trafficking in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 6:43 PM :: 3464 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... McCoy faces a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, as well as mandatory restitution. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 18 ....
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| Wednesday, April 16, 2025 |
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Court backs mosquito suppression plan to save Hawaii’s rare birds
By Court House News @ 4:02 AM :: 2871 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... mosquito “birth control” in Maui forests ....
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| Monday, April 14, 2025 |
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Former death row inmate on trial for sex trafficking charges in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 9:06 PM :: 3700 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... running a sex trafficking ring involving four women and one minor ....
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| Saturday, April 5, 2025 |
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Corruption: Civil Suit Against Kaneshiro Thrown Out of Court
By Court House News @ 2:59 AM :: 3690 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... a federal judge ruled Friday many of her claims were barred by statute of limitations ....
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| Thursday, April 3, 2025 |
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Senate advances program to return homeless to mainland
By Court House News @ 4:52 PM :: 1805 Views :: Homelessness
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... It has reportedly helped over 130 homeless individuals return to their mainland homes since 2023 ....
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| Tuesday, April 1, 2025 |
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‘Long and tortuous path’ continues in Hawaii bioenergy dispute
By Court House News @ 5:16 AM :: 3241 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Labor
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... A federal judge signaled he is likely to dismiss some claims in a dispute between Hu Honua and Hawaiian Electric ....
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| Monday, March 24, 2025 |
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Maui judge rules Haleakala trail must be open to public access
By Court House News @ 10:53 AM :: 3421 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Land Use, Tourism
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... The state must now open the historic Haleakala Trail for public access, putting an end to a decade-long fight for it to be declared a public right of way ....
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| Thursday, March 20, 2025 |
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Hawaii legislative committee advances gun control measures
By Court House News @ 4:05 AM :: 1939 Views :: Second Amendment
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... A Hawaii State Senate Committee advanced five gun control bills ....
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