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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 25 Views :: Energy, Environment

... Persistent drought conditions, Wind gusts 45 mph and higher, and Relative humidity below 45% ....

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
May Tourist Count up 1%
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 52 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism, COVID-19

... May 2025 total visitor arrivals represent a 91.0 percent recovery compared to pre-pandemic May 2019 ....

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Monday, June 30, 2025
Aloha Stadium FAIL: NASED Lists Latest Excuses
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 155 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education, Tourism

... NASED project team today announced an extension of the deadline for its negotiations with Aloha Hālawa District Partners (AHDP) ....

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Monday, June 30, 2025
Maui Police Launch Digital Firearms Registration System
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 183 Views :: Maui County, Second Amendment

... individuals can apply for firearm purchase permits, carry licenses, and register locally-acquired firearms —all through a secure, user-friendly digital platform ....

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Sunday, June 29, 2025
Ethics Complaint Exposes Ties Between Maui Councilmembers, Lahaina Charity Fraud, and Lobbyists
By News Release @ 7:49 PM :: 3150 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Tourism, Drugs

... the organization has a history of threatening and attempting to intimidate anyone who speaks out against them ....

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Saturday, June 28, 2025
No Surprise: BLNR Rejects Another Army EIS
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 434 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii State Government, Military

... this is a negotiating position for the master lease renewals ....

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Friday, June 27, 2025
​UH to tear down 3rd Perfectly Good Maunakea Telescope
By News Release @ 4:38 PM :: 735 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA

... "Right up to the end, UKIRT remained highly productive and will leave a lasting scientific legacy.” ....

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Friday, June 27, 2025
Moszkowicz will not seek Honolulu Chief Position
By News Release @ 2:05 AM :: 516 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Police

"I would love to stay here (on the Big Island), as your Chief, and would publicly commit to not applying to be the Chief anywhere else."

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Thursday, June 26, 2025
OHA Withdraws Maunakea Litigation
By News Release @ 10:42 PM :: 557 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Higher Education, OHA

... Klein Quit as OHA’s Maunakea Lawyer Six Months Ago ....

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Thursday, June 26, 2025
'Self-Certification' to Bypass DPP Delays
By News Release @ 3:33 PM :: 412 Views :: Honolulu County, Development

... online registration is now open for DPP's new Self-Certification Professional (SCP) Program ....

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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Forgery, Fraud and Theft: Former Top Honolulu Attorney Charged with 22 Felony Counts
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 524 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Judiciary

... Chapman is alleged to have engaged in a years-long scheme of forgery, fraud and theft, in which he utilized a forged will to deprive three charities of approximately $250,000 each ....

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Green Adds One More Bill to 'Intent-to-Veto' List
By News Release @ 3:24 AM :: 462 Views :: Hawaii State Government

... Green added SB 935, Relating to Government, to the 2025 Intent-to-Veto list transmitted to Legislative leadership by the statutorily required June 24 deadline ....

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Former CEO of Guam Helicopter Company Sentenced to 405 Months in Federal Prison for Criminal Aviation Violations
By News Release @ 12:27 AM :: 519 Views :: National News, Ethics

... $58M worth of fraudulent aircraft parts ....

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Amended fuel contract expected to save Oahu households nearly $3 a month on electric bills
By News Release @ 4:50 PM :: 341 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living

... The contract amendment negotiated with Par Hawaii and approved by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) includes significant changes aimed at stabilizing fuel costs ...

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Hawaii 2nd-Healthiest State
By News Release @ 2:50 PM :: 441 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

... While Hawai‘i performed strongly in most categories, the report identified several areas where performance declined ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Trump: US Attacks Three Iran Nuke Sites
By News Release @ 9:20 PM :: 536 Views :: Military

... in a reversal of previous presidents' policy, Trump is de-nuclearizing Iran while re-nuclearizing the US ...

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
County of Maui, HUD sign $1.6B grant agreement for disaster relief
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 505 Views :: Maui County

... the County recommends that residents who lost homes in the fires or renters who were displaced by the fires begin preparing to apply ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
City awards contract to continue construction on second floor of HPD’s Waiʻanae Substation
By News Release @ 2:55 PM :: 450 Views :: Honolulu County, Police

... The newly awarded contract will focus on completing the build-out of one loft space on the second floor to house the investigations section....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Barking Sands Land Leases Set to Expire 2027-30
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 488 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Military

... U.S. Navy and NASA release Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed, continued use of state lands on Kauai ....

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Friday, June 20, 2025
UH Grad Student $6.7M Settlement in 2016 Lab Explosion
By News Release @ 2:44 PM :: 602 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education, Labor

"Dr Ekins-Coward, an academic researcher, was seriously injured when her laboratory experiment exploded on 16 March 2016."

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Friday, June 20, 2025
AG Terminates Lahaina Investigation
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 577 Views :: Maui County

... Attorney General Lopez also announced the official transition of future wildfire analysis, mitigation and coordination efforts to the new state fire marshal and the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO) ....

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
By News Release @ 6:33 PM :: 606 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living

... in Hawaii, rent for a one-bedroom unit costs 46% of beginning, bachelor-degree-holding teacher salary ....

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Outraged Over Ban on Juvenile Sex Change
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 819 Views :: Family, Health Care

... Hawaii Democrats remind us why they are more repulsive than Donald J Trump ....

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Wahiawa Veteran Wins in Class Action Lawsuit Against Iran
By News Release @ 4:55 PM :: 662 Views :: Health Care, Military

... On May 30, 2025, a federal court in Washington, D.C., awarded over $573+ million in total damages to victims and families affected by terrorist attacks in Iraq that were enabled by Iran’s support for extremist groups ....

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Matt Elliott approved by BOR as next UH Mānoa athletics director
By News Release @ 1:38 AM :: 435 Views :: Higher Education, Tourism

... BOR unanimously approved the appointment ....

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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 562 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care

... lower courts had ruled against the family’s claim for damages, despite finding the school had fallen short ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair
By News Release @ 5:50 PM :: 895 Views :: Hawaii State Government

... Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura today announced updated leadership and committee appointments in the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Cost of Bills Index: Hawaii 32% Above US Median
By News Release @ 4:52 PM :: 572 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... residents in the most expensive states like California, Hawaii, and New Jersey paying up to 39% more than the national median, while those in the most affordable states like West Virginia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma pay up to 44% less ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 845 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

...Hawaii serves just 5% of its four-year-olds and 2% of three-year-olds in state-funded preschool programs, dead last among Pacific states....

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Kauai Sewer Rates Model for Honolulu Council?
By News Release @ 11:25 AM :: 705 Views :: Kauai County, Small Business, Cost of Living

... Increasing 11% per year over a 5-year period -- The Honolulu Council apparently used this as a model. ....

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Monday, June 9, 2025
Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 1457 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism

... The Lahaina fire is an opportunity to exploit.  The hotel unions and the hotels want the TVR business all for themselves ....

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Monday, June 9, 2025
Hawai‘i children hit hard by high cost of housing
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 755 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hawaiʻi ranks 24th in overall children’s well-being in the Data Book, as well as 33rd in the economic well-being ....

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
REPORT: Hawaii Math Instruction 'Unacceptable'
By News Release @ 5:29 PM :: 855 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education

... an estimated 3,120 students in 4th grade likely cannot perform skills like adding and subtracting multidigit whole numbers, fractions, and decimals ....

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Friday, June 6, 2025
Governor Green Releases 'Intent-to-Veto' List
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 968 Views :: Hawaii State Government

... Green informed legislative leaders and stakeholders of his intent to veto 19 bills ....

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Thursday, June 5, 2025
Matt Elliott selected as the next UH Mānoa athletics director
By News Release @ 10:58 PM :: 559 Views :: Gambling, Higher Education, Tourism

... Most recently, he served as the UCLA Bruins’ Chief Strategy Officer from 2022 to 2024, where he led the department’s transition from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten ....

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Thursday, June 5, 2025
Babylon Bee challenges Hawaii law criminalizing political memes, satire
By News Release @ 5:58 AM :: 1336 Views :: First Amendment

... ADF attorneys represent popular satire site, state resident in legal challenge to censorship law ....

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Hawaii Child Molester Caught by Feds -- gets 41 years
By News Release @ 2:58 PM :: 991 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement

... Houghton conducted weekly piano lessons with the children virtually from his residence in Hawaii. On several occasions, Houghton used the virtual piano lessons to persuade the children to perform sexual acts ....

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
UH: Feds Cut Funding for Sea Level Hysteria
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 781 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Land Use

... If we can't make this stuff up, how can legislators and councilmembers use it as an excuse for their pre-conceived agendas? .... 

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
State Court Shakedown Extracts $700M over Mis-labeled Blood Thinners--oil companies next
By News Release @ 12:50 AM :: 1567 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Judiciary

... “It doesn’t matter if a company is a one-person shop or a multi-billion-dollar oil company, we will relentlessly enforce Hawaiʻi’s consumer protection laws.” ....

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Share your feedback on HPD's compliance with CALEA and more
By News Release @ 12:06 AM :: 641 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police

... Share your feedback with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) ....

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Monday, June 2, 2025
Hawaii County Launches Community Survey
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 546 Views :: Hawaii County

... To take the survey, visit  >>>  tinyurl.com/laulimasurvey   <<<   .... 

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Monday, June 2, 2025
HPD Chief Logan Quits--Moszkowicz to Return from Big Island
By News Release @ 11:55 PM :: 1098 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Police

... two departments will be getting new Chiefs ....

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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Pearl Harbor to Commemorate 80th Anniversary of the End of WWII
By News Release @ 8:19 PM :: 603 Views :: Hawaii History, Military

... commemoration events honoring the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II from August 30 – September 2 ....

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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Trump’s Plan to Land SpaceX Rockets on Johnston Atoll Naturally Spurs Eco-Lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:43 PM :: 582 Views :: Environment, Military

... This project is part of an Air Force program called Rocket Cargo Vanguard intended to experiment with the use of commercial rockets for military logistics and materiel transport ....

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Friday, May 30, 2025
Visitor Industry Grows Again in April 2025
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 749 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism

... There were 833,219 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in April 2025, up 7.9 percent from April 2024. Total visitor spending measured in nominal dollars was $1.69 billion, which was growth of 9.4 percent from April 2024 ....

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Friday, May 30, 2025
Following Biden's Lead, Trump Shuts Down Hawaii Job Corps for Second Year in a Row
By News Release @ 1:41 AM :: 1343 Views :: National News, Ethics, Congressional Delegation

... 13,500 safety incidents from 2016 to 2017 at Job Corps centers, nearly half of them drug-related episodes or assaults ....

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Friday, May 30, 2025
Kauai Police Commission seeks public's input for new KPD Police Chief
By News Release @ 1:01 AM :: 555 Views :: Kauai County, Police

... To share your input, please respond to the Police Chief Desirable Traits survey between now and June 30 ....

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Thursday, May 29, 2025
Joe Gedeon Appointed to Fill Gene Ward's House Seat
By News Release @ 1:45 AM :: 867 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party

... I have been asked if I plan on running for the House District 18 seat in November of 2026.  I can advise you today that I have filed with Campaign Spending Commission as the initial step in that process ....

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Tout Marijuana Crackdown Legislation
By News Release @ 7:27 PM :: 757 Views :: Drugs

... three bills that passed in the 2025 Legislative Session ....

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
DBEDT Lowers Hawaii Economic Growth Projections
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 729 Views :: Economy, Tourism

... This adjustment reflects the impact of tariffs on international imports, a slowdown in tourism, persistent consumer inflation and increasing uncertainty in both national and international economic policy ....

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