1. Liquor Comm. Insider Bails out as Federal Oversight Commences
2. Hawaii Among Worst States to Start a Business
3. Honolulu Next? U.S. Transportation Secretary Duffy Announces Review of California High-Speed Rail Project
4. Trump’s Federal Budget Cuts May Save Hawaii from Rail Tax Extension
5. HART board member challenges closed-door meeting policy
6. Fire burns Hawaiian Electric Industries with $1.4B loss
7. Wahiawā Charter School Accepts Permanent Closure
8. Maui Man Released After 30 Years In Prison For A Murder He Says He Didn't Commit

1. SB433: Hawaii Knife Ban Bill Stopped
2. Fire debris cleared from final commercial property in Lahaina
3. Island Flex Open Enrollment Period: March 1 through April 30, 2025
4. Hawaii-AG-Backs-Suit-Against-Closure-of-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
5. Three Bills Could Speed Up Rebuilding Of Lahaina's Front Street
6. Cochran absent from House Floor 80% so far this session
7. More Miske associates sentenced
8. Proposed pay hikes for state ‘leaders’ spark outrage
9. SB1553: A Pre-Fab Factory to Get More Native Hawaiians Into DHHL Homes
10. Mindless DPP Bureaucracy Makes 'Renovation Aloha' Illegal
11. Maui Council’s $300,000 vacation rental phase-out study strays off course
12. ‘Sustainable’ Aviation Fuel: $80M Subsidy to Refinery, Airlines
13. Hawaii Tax Revenues for January Down $171M From Last January
14. Lawsuit over Rail’s ‘Foul Miasma’ -- HART ‘flooded with sewage’
15. Police union approves COVID hazard pay settlement

1. Case and Ward ask Trump Admin to Ban Windfarms from Kaiwi Channel
2. Court ruling makes Miske indictments and convictions disappear
3. Gas Attack: Former associate of late crime boss Mike Miske sentenced
4. HB1307: Big Island’s Next Geothermal plant to be on DHHL Land next to Pohakuloa?
5. Investment Houses Salivate over Chance to Milk Passive Investors as Hawaii automatic retirement savings scam bills move forward
6. County vows to install cameras, lights after slew of thefts in Lahaina burn zone
7. Did Maui’s Vacation Rental Crackdown Hit A Wall?
8. Deadline Tomorrow: Candidate Registration for Neighborhood Board Elections
9. Honolulu Fire Battalion Chief released pending investigation in sexual assault case
10. Pentagon chief orders big cuts, but Indo-Pacific Command among exemptions
11. Trump order halts ‘community benefits plans’
12. To Rescue The Cliffs Below Diamond Head, This Group Went Rogue

1. 'Malicious Prosecution' Kaneshiro Tries to Beat Back Civil Suit
2. Indictment: Alleged Embezzler Busted at Hawaii Eco Group
3. Green Executive Order to Speed State Hiring?
4. UH: TRO Protecting DEI from Trump Executive Orders
5. Double the Fraud: SB184 100% fee hike for beverage container recycling
6. Consumers Sacrifice To Pay Hawaiʻi’s Record Electric Bills
7. $42.5M: UH students are on hook for COVID pay to employees
8. Leaks And Mold: Hensel Phelps’ 4-Year-Old State Hospital Needs New Roof
9. Hawai‘i Condo Owners Could Benefit From State Plan To Prop Up Insurance Market
10. Sanctuary County? Council members challenge Hawaii County PD cooperation with ICE, DHS, FBI
11. Auckland Airport cocaine bust: 100kg in bags smuggled on Hawaiian Airlines flight

1. Rising Costs on the Horizon: How Increased Tariffs on China Will Impact Hawaiʻi
2. City announces two more town hall meetings on proposed sewer fee increases
3. Abolish Salary Commissions?
4. Coruption:  First test of AG’s “Special Investigation and Prosecution Division” – How will she throw JL Capital case?
5. The Hawaiʻi State Capitol Could Be Closed For Years As Contractors Milk $100M Allocated To Fix Aging Systems
6. Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles Arrive in Waikiki, City will soon be stripped of all Coconut Palms
7. ​Transsexual files Lawsuit filed over 2020 COVID mask incident
8. Kauai, Island of Retaliation: Sex Harassment Claim Against Judge Could Cost Taxpayers $90K

Abolish Salary Commissions?

1. Amended SB1150 Still Legalizes Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change
2. House Report: 60 Chinese espionage cases in three years
3. Hawaii GOP hopes era of cooperation leads to new laws
4. This Luxury Kauaʻi Hotel Is Housing Foreign Workers In Container Homes
5. High Cost of Living Means Being A Mom In Hawaiʻi Isn't Easy.
6. What happens to Miske’s Portlock luxury home and other assets?
7. DLNR Demands Money for Lahaina harbor rebuild

1. Candy Crush
2. LIST: Dozens of Bills That Could Affect Cost of Living
3. Policies that could help turn the tide of people leaving Hawaii
4. If we're not careful, nearly everything will become "historic"
5. California wildfire recovery lessons from Lahaina
6. This Week in Hawai'i: Freedom to Read, Gender Affirming Health Care, Marijuana & Gambling
7. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 14, 2025
8. SB492: 20 More Years of The Honolulu Rail Tax Being ‘Temporary’?
9. Let LNG flow for cheap, clean energy
10. Ethics Complaints up 552%
11. No Legislator Admits to Lobbyist Relationships, Given Extension to Correct their Lies
12. Prison Designer Hosts Indiana Fundraiser for Green
13. Those who lost loved ones in the Lahaina fire could receive some funds next month
14. Miske’s criminal case enters its final stage
15. Hawaii County Police discipline: Sex Offender Gets Job Back, Armed Robber and Bribe Taker Next
16. Maneuver: House ‘Recommits’ Marijuana Legalization Bill Forcing Senate to Take Lead
17. Federal job losses could be local government gains

1. Case, Moylan Introduce Jones Act Reform Bill
2. Honolulu Neighborhood Board Candidate Registration Ends Feb 21
3. 18 Months Later: Maui Council Begins to Loosen Rebuild Restrictions
4. Frustrations, ironies of ‘Princeville Market saga’
5. Report urges changes to cut review delays at State Historic Preservation Division
6. Releasing Mosquitoes to Help Kauai Forest Birds
7. Busted on Guam: Federal Juror Took Bribe from Dirty ex-Cop
8. How Zoning Ruined the Housing Market in Blue-State America
9. SB27 and SB28 advance to end county council obstructionism of state-funded housing projects
10. County bill advances to allow nonconforming structures in Lahaina to be rebuilt as they were before the wildfires
11. ‘I knew the truth.’ Red Hill whistleblower responds after inspector general report clears leaders
12. Game Room Enforcer with 50 Priors Gets Probation Again and Again
13. Death of neighbor sparks kauhale health concerns

1. Navatek ex-CEO Gets 87 Months for Fraud
2. Hawaii AG Sues to Stop Musk
3. Hawaii AG Wins Injunction Against Trump's 'Birthright Citizenship' Order
4. How to Maintain DEI Programs: Hawaii AG 'Guidance' for State Contractors
5. $550M Short, Stanford Carr might be forced to walk away from Aloha Stadium project
6. Another CWS Hell House: Three Babykillers Get Probation
7. SB897 to Facilitate Clean, Cheap Natural Gas for Hawaii?
8. HB982 Raise Rates Now to Pay HECO for its NEXT Disaster
9. Family Ties Could DQ Judge From Hawaii Wildfire Litigation
10. Hawaii lawmakers put end to casino gambling bill
11. SB1432: Dissolve Hawaii’s 5^th County--or make Molokai its own County?
12. Congresswoman demands answers after HNN investigation exposes one-sided kidney trade
13. Delayed teacher paychecks discussed at Hawaii Board of Education meeting (again)
14. Toxic Work Environment Concerns Derail Honolulu EMS Director Reappointment
15. Why can’t Hawaii taxpayers use IRS Direct File?

1. McConnell: 'Unworthy' Gabbard an 'Unnecessary Risk' to America
2. Honolulu 4th Highest Inflation in USA
3. Honolulu Bankruptcy Courthouse: Oral Argument at Ninth Circuit Against SEC’s Illegal Gag Rule
4. “You cannot run from the facts” Miske half-brother gets 20 years
5. Lahaina FEMA Housing: Rent to be collected starting March 1
6. Feds Release Red Hill Health Study
7. Hawai‘i’s Housing Crisis Was Decades in the Making
8. Testimony over transsexual child kidnapping bill gets heated
9. ‘Harm Reduction Ripoff?’ -- Kauhale Cost $103K per bum per year
10. Maui’s Vacation Rental War: A Crackdown or Engineered Uproar?
11. More than 600 Lahaina structures can be rebuilt faster with new permitting policy
12. Police to vote on $20K each COVID hazard pay settlement
13. SB1588: Nuclear power exploration legislation gains steam
14. HB661: Save Boat Tours from Eco Activist Obstructionism
15. Hawai`i State Legislature`s Third Attempt at Carbon Sequestration Scam
16. Hawaiʻi Algae Feed Project At Risk Amid Federal Funding Freeze
17. Trump executive order impedes funding for Native Hawaiian-led ‘climate’ work
18. Hawaii Couple's Energy Tax Credit Suit Gets Review by High Court

1. Feds Begin to Pull 'Project Labor Agreements'
2. Russian Bot In Charge of all US Intelligence Agencies: Gabbard Confirmed by Senate 52-48
3. SB1201: HECO Wants Rate Hikes to Cover Maui wildfire settlement
4. $5B Tax Hike: A 15-Year Extension Of Honolulu Rail Tax Advances In The Senate
5. Maui Fire ruling is a “lose-lose” for Hawaii residents—secret mediation underway
6. Half-brother of late crime boss sentenced as part of ‘Miske enterprise’
7. Sewage plant prompts emergency proclamation
8. Hawaii 'Stand your ground' laws could expand after killing
9. High risk, low pay: Dangers faced by Hawaii’s private security guards often underestimated, experts say
10. Acasio, 7 others sue state House
11. Return to Sender: Bills would deport bums back to Mainland

1. FULL TEXT: State Supreme Court Ruling Goes Against Maui Wildfire Insurers
2. Hawaii Supreme Court gives green light to $4 billion Maui fire settlement
3. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Public Hearings on Wednesday
4. What Lingle v Chevron Missed: Eminent Domain Pretext
5. Indictment: Developer Behind False-Name Contributions to Amemiya, Pine
6. Hawaii AG Joins Suit Against Trump administration for ‘indiscriminate’ public health research funding cuts
7. Hawaiian Electric claims to be 36% 'renewable'
8. ‘Russian Bot’ to be Director of National Intelligence: Senate tees up final vote on Tulsi Gabbard nomination
9. State officials could see big pay raises soon
10. Lahaina Disaster Still A 'Relentless Presence' In Fire Survivors' Lives

1. Federal Court Upholds Hawaiʻi’s firearm age restriction laws
2. Racism Is Common In Hawaiʻi Schools — And Often Goes Unaddressed
3. ACLU Cites 'Pattern Of Violence' After Murder At Oʻahu Jail--demands mass release of criminals so they can inflict the ‘pattern of violence’ on us
4. With massive flooding in Kīhei wreaking havoc every winter, community wonders: When will things change?
5. Suspected meth found at Guam AG's office
6. Congressional Delegation (again) Pretending to Reunite Filipino WW2 Veterans’ Families

1. Don't tax me, bro!
2. Dedicated Funding?!
3. ACLU, Judiciary Plot to Release Hundreds of Criminals onto the Streets
4. Feds Collect $1.7M in Hawaii Forfeitures
5. Hawaiʻi Water Safety Plan to address drowning crisis
6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted February 7, 2025
7. The Hawaii Contradiction: Is Sustainability Just A Price Hike?
8. Bananas prove slippery for former city officials
9. Hawaiʻi Foster Care Numbers Are Down. But Not Down Enough
10. Rep Gene Ward Missing from Legislature
11. What’s next now that the eviction moratorium has ended?
12. HB606: Hawaiian Home Lands seeks public support for a bill to increase, extend deadline on $600M spending plan
13. Fifty Years of Hawaii Lobbying Reform

1. SB1150 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
2. Monday: Salary Commission to Hear Testimony on Salary Increases
3. Legislature Votes on Abortion, Vaccines and Marijuana--Sex Change Next
4. ‘Enough is enough’ says Case regarding Jones Act and Hawaii
5. First Christian Good News Clubs in Hawaii Schools after Court Victory
6. SB893: Casinos at New Aloha Stadium and Convention Center
7. Samoan tragedy kept in forefront of Kennedy fight
8. Bill Could Allow Maunakea Authority To Side Step Sunshine Law

1. PHOTOS: Lahaina Strong Leaders Show Off Luxe European and Asian Vacations
2. Honolulu Rate Commission seeks input on recommended fare hikes
3. Legislature Votes on Abortion, Vaccines and Marijuana
4. GE Tax Imposed on 119% of State Personal Income
5. Poll: Trump Favorability 28% in Hawaii—2^nd lowest in USA
6. HB959: 50% Hike in GE Tax
7. Supreme Court Hears Case for Robbing Insurers to Save Hawaii Political Insiders from HECO Bankruptcy
8. Lahaina seaside owners want accelerated rebuilding process
9. UH Cancer Center: Tax Hikes and Another Mercado Kim Shakedown
10. Family of fallen Maui firefighter demands $14M

1. California Home Insurance Crisis Provides Another Example of the Pitfalls of Government Intervention
2. Hawaii Attorney General Pledges to Continue Sex-Change Operations on Children
3. Proof of Concept Study Completed for New Oahu Jail
4. Lahaina Rebuild: Green's Latest Emergency Order Gives SMA Exemptions Mauka of Front Street
5. Maui Wildfire Settlement – Jack up Electric and Insurance Rates to Save HECO -- now before Supreme Court
6. How High Will Hawaii’s 18% Hotel Tax Go With Latest Proposal?
7. SB1124: A Per-Box Delivery Tax
8. What will Happen to Pacific Island nations as Trump Deports Criminals?
9. Hawaiʻi recycling program headed by 911 trooother says accounts frozen by Trump's executive orders
10. Red Hill community group says Trump memo is impacting talks with the Navy
11. HB1118: Eliminate Antivaxxers’ Religious Exemptions
12. SB1542: Parental Control Over Online Apps
13. HB371: Bill To Close Pay-To-Play Loophole In Hawaiʻi Moves To Full House

1. Honolulu Charges the Highest Tourist Tax in the World
2. Here’s the Salary a Single Person Needs to Live Comfortably in Hawaii
3. Do you think the city spends your money responsibly?
4. Senate bill passes to waive SMA permits for rebuilding parts of historic Lahaina town
5. Governor questions Trump picks’ experience, tells loyalists: ‘You have been tricked’
6. Victim: Red Hill advocates wrong to mix with RFK antivaxxerism
7. OHA Kakaako Makai housing bill advances
8. First climate tax hike bills pass initial hearing
9. Hawaii Legislature Considering Geothermal and Nuclear Power
10. Marijuana Legalization Gets Initial Approval From 2 House Committees
11. Bill would create statewide policy for police car chases
12. State stops 24/7 enforcement of Waianae Small Boat Harbor

1. VIDEO: Tulsi's New Age Guru and the Source of Her Mysterious Wealth
2. Greatness
3. Hawaii Gun Ban Bills Scheduled for Public Hearings this Thursday
4. 2024 Homeless Report showed many underutilized housing programs
5. Wheat Retires, Corruption Investigations Over:  Its Party Time Again -- Sweet Deal for Former city officials Guilty in police chief payoff conspiracy
6. Senate panel advances Tulsi Gabbard nomination for DNI after Trump, Musk Flip Votes
7. SB534:  OHA’s Crooked Kakaako Deal
8. Council members question effectiveness of homeless-related grants
9. As Usual, Penalty Reduced in Arbitration For HPD Officers
10. Ethics Bills on the Move (for now)
11. Multifaceted writer Cliff Slater dies at 91

1. Legislature: Grassroot Institute sifts through onslaught of bills
2. 2024: Tourist Count Up--Spending Down
3. Honolulu Egg Prices up 52%
4. Hawaii AG Claims Victory--Sued to Overturn Trump Funding Freeze
5. City touts 'bold initiative' to expand affordable housing
6. SB1618 'Patently Unconstitutional'
7. Small business struggles highlighted in new UHERO report
8. SB1618: Donna Mercado Kim bill would Abolish Freedom of the Press
9. SB311: State Constitutional amendment would Abolish Freedom of the Press
10. Legislature ‘mulls’ multiple insurance bills
11. Intervention Window Opens for Reviewing HECO`s Wildfire Mitigation Plan
12. Maui's Historic Restaurants Get Help From National Trust
13. 24,000 in Hawaiʻi Call Federal Government Their Boss

1. Hold On to Our Gains!
2. Proposed "green fee" a reason for red flag
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 31, 2025
4. ‘Snowed-in’ -- Trump Rattled by Gabbard’s Poor Performance at Hearing
5. Pay Hikes:  Legislators make bank as their electorate suffers
6. Hawaiʻi Lawmakers At Work Year Round? Nightmare Scenario That's Becoming A Real Possibility
7. OHA CEO, Chair tied to Sen Dela Cruz
8. Hawaii Supreme Court considers fate of $4B wildfire settlement
9. House bill advances to speed up historic preservation reviews of development projects
10. More Delays for Front Street: State official says ‘community’ needs time to ‘decide future’ of Lahaina’s Historic District
11. KSBE Can Get Away With Anything: Kahala Hotel beach access lawsuit
12. Don’t raise hotel tax while Hawaii tourism still struggles
13. Vague Laws, Big Consequences: As Intended, Uncertainty Chokes Maui Vacation Rentals
14. HART board discusses next evaluation for CEO Kahikina
15. DoT Wants 187 Speeding Cameras to ticket drivers

1. HB900: Lawyers for Abused Foster Kids?
2. 'Severe Housing Problems' Drag Down Hawaii Health Rankings
3. DoE Tries to Spin Latest Batch of Failing Test Scores
4. What happens When UH Hires a Disbarred Ex-Con as Law Professor?
5. Trump Executive Order Mandates School Choice for Military Families
6. Taxpayers Buy State Rep Poepoe an Oceanfront 300ac
7. Mitsunaga Money Laundering Convict Wesley Segawa confirmed 6-3 as director of Hawaiʻi County’s Department of Environmental Management – immediately identifies ‘contract’ opportunities
8. Lahaina housing: Former tenants eager to return, daunted by four-year wait
9. ‘Resident preference’ housing bill unanimously OK’d
10. HB1308: Online sports betting in Hawaii moves ahead in state House
11. HB790/SB589: Reach in Your Pocket to Pay More Solar Subsidies
12. Easy Pander: Honolulu Council opposes landfills over Oahu’s aquifer
13. Grim memories resurface after DNA advances lead to arrest of suspect in Hawaii teen’s 1977 murder
14. Federal prosecutors sue to get Miske’s $25M in assets after criminal case upended by his death

1. Save Kakaako Makai: Friends of Kewalo Invites the Public to its Information Gathering Potluck BBQ
2. Thieves: Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Wealth Asset Tax Bill for Assets Above $20M
3. HB1246: Legalize Marijuana Edibles
4. Puna Man Arrested in Alleged Neo-Nazi Child Molestation Ring
5. HB1494: ‘Stop all Procurement’ for Aloha Stadium Boondoggle
6. Trump Admin a Threat to CNHA Cashflow?
7. SB1170: Exempt from SMA permitting five specific affordable housing complexes destroyed in Lahaina fire
8. Hawaii vacation rentals only about half full in 2024
9. Hawaiʻi's ‘new energy strategy’ opens door to liquefied natural gas imports
10. Hawaii Legislators Target Generational Tobacco Ban
11. No charges filed against officers involved in New Years Day pursuit
12. Four More Arrested In New Year’s Fireworks Explosion
13. Did crews clear homeless camps along streams before storm?

1. WSJ: Hawaii 'Down to Earth' Markets Tied to Ponzi Scheme  
2. VIDEO: Gabbard's 'Frosty' Confirmation Hearing
3. Gabbard Attended Pro-Russia Conference in Rome--then invented story about Terror Watchlist
4. Jail Guard Pleads Guilty to Importing Illegal Fireworks--via jail mailroom
5. Hawaii AG Sues to Overturn Trump Funding Freeze
6. '50,000 Batteries' -- Green Signs 'Renewable' Energy Executive Order
7. Schatz, Cruz, Murphy, Britt Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Keep Kids Safe, Healthy, off Social Media
8. ‘He’s a liar.’ Green calls out Kennedy’s bullsh*t
9. OHA Salary Commission Approves 62% Trustee Pay Raises
10. OHA’s Kakaako Makai Bill On The Move
11. Lahaina Fire: Last-Minute Deal Prevents Class Action Lawyers from Airing Dirty Laundry
12. Lahaina Rebuild: Maui plumbing rules headed for much-needed update
13. 8 Criminals on Oahu are detained in immigration crackdown
14. Bills would Block Local Police Cooperation with Immigration Enforcement
15. Kratom: Will Hawaiʻi ban 'Gas Station Heroin'?
16. Harmful Sewage Continues To Pollute Kailua Bay Despite CIP Projects

1. Lahaina Fire: How Maui Emergency Operations Center Lost 'Situational Awareness'
2. Red Hill moms organized by Antivaxxer RFK—in DC to Attend Confirmation Hearing
3. Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames R.F.K. Jr. for Measles Deaths in Samoa
4. A $4B settlement for Hawaii wildfire victims is in legal limbo as an unusual trial starts
5. Fireworks patient in Arizona dies, raising Aliamanu death toll to 5
6. Relief from soaring Hawaii property insurance costs is elusive
7. SB214 End of Tip Credit Could Put Restaurants out of Business
8. Not all recyclables are recycled on Oahu; what happens to all those blue bin items

1. Lahaina Rebuild Obstruction May Cause Fire Victims to Reject Green’s ‘Settlement’
2. COFA Migrants win Second Amendment Rights in Hawaii Suit
3. 56% Pay Raises for Legislators, 61% for Governor
4. Insiders Looted Kamalani Academy Before State Opted To Shut It Down
5. UH likely to take big hit from federal grant funding halt
6. Enviros sue governor over water commission appointee

• Lahaina Rebuild Obstruction May Cause Fire Victims to Reject Green’s ‘Settlement’
• Celebrities Come Home!

1. Hawaii’s failed wildfire rebuild should not be a model for California
2. Case: Boosting Long-term U.S. Engagement in the Pacific
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 24, 2025
4. HIDOE releases after-action report on Maui wildfire response and recovery efforts
5. Tulsi Gabbard will be rejected by Intelligence Committee
6. Prosecutors agree Miske indictments must be set aside
7. SB6: How much power should the Maunakea Authority have?
8. Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees In Line To Get Big Pay Raises
9. Absolute Secrecy Thwarts Understanding And Reform Of Child Welfare Services
10. Housing pressures increase on Maui as assistance ends
11. AIG, Gas Company Lock Horns in Hawaii Climate Change Dispute

1. Lowering our cost of living is worth cheering
2. Those Nickels Add Up!
3. Oahu Man Sentenced to Over 16 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking and Illegal Gambling Charges
4. Kapolei Woman Indicted for COVID Fraud
5. Hawaii taxpayers could benefit from new IRS Direct File system
6. Squeeze on Honolulu rail -- GE Tax Surcharge Diverted
7. ALICE families in dire straits in Hawaii
8. Accusations of misconduct, theft, exclusions -- Hawaiʻi County nonprofit funding
9. BLNR Makes Another Oceanfront Hotel Worthless
10. Billionaire Boat Stops at Molokai Without Paying off Walter Ritte—guess what happens next
11. SB1618: Donna Kim Dreams of State Controlled Media
12. House ‘Social Media Policy’ designed to Censor Legislators
13. Republican Caucus: The Hawaiʻi First Agenda
14. Major Reform Bills Are Still On The Table (again)

1. Tulsi Gabbard’s performance in Jan. 30 hearing could ‘make or break’ her chances
2. How to use Control of Water to Block Lahaina Rebuild
3. Butterfly Knife Ban: 9th Circuit’s Devious Maneuvers Against 2nd Amendment
4. HIFICO: Hawaii Gun Bill Tracker
5. 2024 Check Register: OHA Spending up 9.6%
6. MEMA After-Action Report on Maui wildfires released
7. GE Tax Hike on the move in the legislature
8. GE Tax Hike: Green Wants To Extend Excise Tax Surcharge On Neighbor Islands
9. How UPW Negotiating Team Set up Overtime Games Responsible for toxic environment in Hawaii jails
10. Bill proposes Some SMA permit exemptions for rebuilding in Lahaina historic district
11. 2 arrested in connection with deadly fireworks explosion
12. Federal Government Seeks To Seize Mike Miske's Assets After His Death

1. 18 Months After Wildfires Destroyed Some 2,000 Homes on Maui, Only 3 Have Been Rebuilt
2. 18th Homeless Kauhale Opens in Waianae
3. Hawaii AG: Local Law Enforcement Cannot be Commandeered by Trump
4. VIDEO: 2025 State of the Judiciary Address
5. ACLU, Judiciary Plot to Release Hundreds of Criminals onto the Streets
6. Robotics teams to compete in the 2025 Hawaii VEX Regional Championships
7. Hawaii offshore wind farm plan frozen by Trump order
8. HB109/SB184: Double Hawaii bottle tax to feed corrupt ‘recycling’ program
9. Lawmakers looking for answers from UH athletics department
10. Charter Commission Votes To Close Down Kamalani Academy In June
11. Oahu Group cracks down on 'predators;' posts meet ups on social media
12. Hawaiʻi Finally Revokes Professional Licenses Of Registered Sex Offender
13. Months after announcing retirement, embattled KPD chief won’t reveal departure date
14. COVID Free Ride Over: DoE Starts Charging for Summer School Again
15. HB212: ‘Return-to-Home program’ proposed for homeless people to return to their home states  
16. ‘Help us’: Public housing redevelopment forces 60 Kuhio Park Terrace tenants to relocate
17. Falls of Clyde removal contract awarded
18. Chinatown Fire Ended Bubonic Plague Epidemic

1. Navy can’t dodge Clean Water Act claims over Honolulu fuel storage facility
2. Hawaii K-12 Parent and School Expo to Highlight Learning Options and Family Fun
3. Report: Hawaii Jail Guards Under Extreme Stress Due to Mandatory OT, Understaffing
4. Trump Preparing to Dump Gabbard
5. Bye-Bye DEI: OHA Cronies object to Trump’s ‘race-blind’ actions
6. How Honolulu Crime Boss Mike Miske Fed The Illegal Fireworks Market
7. It’s been 2+ years since a high-profile fireworks bust at OCCC. Where’s the accountability?
8. Saiki returns to help control insurance coverage, costs
9. A quick look into the financial disclosures of Honolulu city officials
10. Buy HECO?  Lose your Free Speech til 2040
11. SB217: New bill paves the way for toll roads in Hawaii
12. State’s 18th kauhale blessed in Waianae
13. Hawaii should count homeless population
14. Schatz denounces RFK Jr. nomination to head health department
15. Trump Should Develop A National Strategy For COFA Nations
16. The Eldercide Of The Pandemic
17. "Discipline Will Be Forced" on Hawaiian, Says Alaska
18. Brothers wrongfully convicted in Dana Ireland murder case file new lawsuit citing ‘botched’ investigation

1. Hawaii Residents See Largest Tax Cut in State History 
2. Record number of students helped by Hawaiʻi Promise scholarship
3. Case, Moylan Reintroduce 'Affordable Shipping for All Act'
4. Hawaii Worst State for Drivers
5. Birthright Citizenship? Hawaii AG Joins Suit Challenging Trump's Executive Order
6. Trump Directs Coast Guard 'Surge'
7. Maui Police Officer Indicted for Deprivation of Civil Rights
8. Timeline: Gabbard Lied to Congress About Syria Trip—spent hours alone with Assad
9. Boozy Senators Vote to Keep Drinking on the Job
10. Hawaiʻi Should Adopt New IRS Tool To Save Time And Money
11. Geothermal Bills Introduced in Hawai`i State Legislature
12. DNA Testing Leads to Arrest in 1977 Murder/Rape of McKinley HS Girl
13. Fireworks Injuries, Deaths Reached 14-Year High On New Year's
14. Cost Of 450 Temporary Homes For Maui Wildfire Victims: $411,000 Each
15. Hawaii wildfire risks lead to demand for more sheep
16. 78% of Waikiki Homeless 'Newly Arrived Individuals’

1. Gov Green 2025 State of the State Address Live
2. Hawaii 7th-Worst State to Start New Business
3. Court Rejects Biden's 'Project Labor Agreement' Mandate
4. David K. Porter Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Honolulu Field Office
5. Trump Orders Temporary Withdrawal of Offshore Areas from Wind Leasing
6. President Trump pardons 2 Hawaii men involved in Jan. 6 Capitol riot
7. Crisis fund access stirs feud between HTA and DBEDT
8. STEM Education Begins to Draw Boys Back into Academia
9. 200 Bums Removed from Chinatown: ‘Arresting can be a real answer to all of this’
10. HB748: More Possible Locations for Honolulu Landfills
11. DPP software upgrade delayed due to technical snag, city says

1. VIDEO: Trump Inaugural Address
2. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
3. Housing Affordability: Regulations or Spending?
4. Do Lahaina recovery efforts hold lessons for LA?
5. Hawaii Trump supporters journey nearly 5,000 miles for inauguration
6. Guam Attorney General:  Do not tolerate homeless encampments
7. Bury all power lines or rebuild the town fast? In Lahaina fire recovery, it’s hard to do both  
8. A quick update on a few Miske co-defendants
9. HPD officers to be deposed in connection with Jan. 1, 2024, beating of man who attempted to interfere in police chase
10. Revenge: In-Laws Of Rep. Sue Lee Loy Claim She Doesn't Live In Her Hilo District
11. Honolulu Has Been Struggling To Regulate Fireworks For More Than A Century

1. Military Personnel 14% of Oahu Rental Market -- but nearly 0% of Sister Isle Rental Market
2. Climate Resiliency
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted January 17, 2025
4. Celebrities Come Home!
5. Gabbard brought in over $1.2M as a MAGA celebrity, filings show
6. Pandering to Antivaxxers
7. Legislature Opens With Annual Ritual: Empty Talk About Housing
8. Homeless ‘taxpayer-funded service fees’ -- $36,500 each
9. How The Pandemic Shutdown Opened Up Public Access To The Legislature
10. Hawaii National Guard Job Challenge Academy unveiled
11. Plotting Banyan’s course: As razing of Uncle Billy’s finishes, officials mull future of area
12. Parasitic wasps to help combat CBB; officials look to release them this spring

1. Vigilance key to protecting historic state income tax cut
2. Spending restraint tagged as best way to protect 2024 state tax cuts
3. City partners with UHERO to launch Subsidized Housing Tracker
4. Trump should bypass support for the protectionist Jones Act
5. Shakedown: DelaCruz, Kim Torture Hensel for Four Hours
6. Shakedown: Who will have final say over Mauna Kea decisions? State or stewardship authority?
7. Shakedown: State lawmakers grill Hawaii agriculture officials over funding, contracts
8. The $2 trillion home insurance nightmare is getting even worse
9. MAGA Cashiers a Check on Tulsi Gabbard as DNI
10. Lahaina Scheme to Quietly Demolish 1823 Spring House
11. $3.75M to Rebuild 100’ of Waikiki Seawall and Walkway
12. Cousin, enforcer of late crime boss receives 3-year federal sentence

1. Murdered Baby Related to HPD Deputy Chief, DHS Investigator
2. OHA Trustees Never Approved $705K Hush Money Payment
3. VIDEO: Hirono, Pam Bondi, and Sexual Harassment
4. Interior Department Strengthens Native Hawaiian Consultation Policies and Procedures, Affirms Federal Trust Responsibility to Native Hawaiian Community
5. Hawaii House Updates Rules for 2025 Session
6. Illegal Vapes: AG Warns Retailers
7. Voter Suppression: Bills Call for More Voter Service Centers on Oahu
8. Target DelaCruz: Wahiawa Garbage Dump Part of Scheme to Pressure Legislature
9. SB175: Bump up Soft-on-Crime Judges’ retirement age (again)
10. New UH President Hensel expects to hire AD in summer
11. DoE Budget Pressure Tactic: Hawaii public schools to see price hike for summer school programs
12. Hawaiʻi Teens Less Likely To Drink Alcohol — Or Use Sunscreen

1. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Pre-Filed as Legislative Session Convenes
2. Ninth Circuit won’t rehear arguments on its decision to uphold gun-free zones in Hawaii and California
3. US DOT Sues Southwest Airlines for Chronically Delayed Flights
4. NCAA athletes seeking women's sports for women only
5. New Details Emerge After DNA Solves a 2014 Jane Doe
6. 2025 Preview: Bribery allows major bills and issues to be blindsided at the eleventh hour, due to an opaque system that allows in-the-know lobbyists to sway Legislators
7. Hawaiʻi Legislature Begins 2025 With High Hopes for Insurance Reform, Affordable Housing
8. Hawaii lawmakers vow to stabilize property insurance market as climate change fuels higher premiums
9. Trannssexual Votes Against Speaker
10. Hawaii governor's (self-serving) ideas to help LA recover from the fires
11. Will NOAA's Race To Make Papahānaumokuākea A National Sanctuary Survive Trump?
12. HPD officer arrested for alleged abuse of family member

1. Chris Butler Sabotaging Gabbard Nomination? Blames Opposition on 'Pedophile and Paranoid Murderer'
2. Drunk? Hirono vs Hegseth
3. Maui Wildfire: AG Releases Final Phase of Report
4. HS Teams to Compete in 2025 Hawaii Lifesmarts Competition
5. 'Ohana Health Plan Launches Residential Program for Homeless Psych Treatment
6. DLE Director Quits
7. LOL! Tulsi Gabbard Charm Offensive Draws Skepticism From Republican Senators
8. Garbage News: Formby Admits Real Plan is to Expand Waimanalo Gulch
9. Lawsuit over EPIC system moves ahead
10. Number Of Hawaiʻi Children In Foster Care Drops Due to Lack of Social Workers
11. State’s First Charter Preschool Opens
12. Improvement District for Downtown Honolulu to Help Sell Residential Office Conversion Condos
13. Mis-Use 911?  They’ll send an Uber
14. Kalihi businesses impacted by rail construction can soon apply for financial relief
15. Abrupt shutdown of a Kauai market slashes vital business for 50 small vendors
16. The Never-Ending Story: Wrangling over South Maui General Plan

1. UHERO: Maui wildfires trigger population loss, economic impact
2. No-Fault Insurance for Electricity-Caused Wildfires?
3. HECO Unveils Expanded Wildfire Safety Strategy  
4. Hawaii 2nd Most Racially Integrated State
5. Gabbard Nomination: Senate braces for 'train wreck'
6. Keep promised income tax cuts intact
7. Struggling To Survive: Hawaiʻi Residents Take On Debt, Think About Leaving
8. Fireworks: Green proposes $300 fines, more prison time
9. PUC to Review HECO Wildfire Safety Strategy
10. Could power cutoff hinder hydrants?
11. Hawaiʻi Agriculture Department Loses Another Deputy
12. Homeless Schizo Only Got Treatment Due to Mistaken Identity

1. Supreme Court Allows Honolulu 'Big Oil' Suit to Proceed
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 10, 2025
3. Housing Agenda for Hawai’i Legislature
4. Only One Front Street House Being Rebuilt
5. Chaos in DLE:  Deputies’ Suicide, Arrests, Suspensions
6. Open Window to Intervene in HECO`s Latest Renewable Energy Procurement
7. Data Dive: Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders Suffer For Lack Of Health Insurance
8. Point in Time Count to skip unsheltered homeless this year

1. Case Dismissed—For Now
2. Walk back our tax cuts? That would be a shame.
3. ALICE REPORT: 37% of Households Consider Leaving Hawaii
4. 14% of Hawaii Healthcare Jobs Vacant
5. Deport Illegal Thieves? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Votes 'Nay'
6. Debate: Jones Act Reform a Winning Topic
7. OIP: New Law and New Opinions for New Year
8. Salary Squabble after years of Dysfunction: Is Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Boss Worth $300K/yr?
9. Gov. Green becomes Dr. Green to oppose Kennedy
10. Anti-telescope Activist Enthused by Recent Developments
11. Months after a deadly Waianae Valley rampage, an illegal party structure is being dismantled
12. Social Security pay boost for 33,000 retirees in Hawaii
13. Nuggets of wisdom found in speaking wit to power

1. Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns
2. Is another great year too much to ask?
3. Not Everybody is Leaving: COVID fraud helps one family move to Kapolei
4. OHA Legislative Agenda: Kakaako 400 Foot Towers (again)
5. OHA Trustees Swear to Uphold Two Constitutions
6. Hawaii attorney general questions Walmart's retreat from DEI
7. Judiciary Seeks Nominees for Big Island, Maui
8. Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Finds Pierick Won House Race by 11 votes
9. Law enforcement department looks to upgrade technology nearly five years after evidence deleted
10. Key leader in Waianae cockfighting case pleads guilty, two others also changing their pleas
11. Front Street Recovery: Generational landowners launch initiative to rebuild Lahaina Town
12. Lahaina Underground power lines put on hold, says Hawaiian Electric
13. Hawaii State fireworks laws misaligned with Honolulu City ordinances
14. Honolulu City Council ‘reaffirms’ opposition to landfill over aquifer
15. I can braid hair, but Hawaii will not let me work

1. VIDEO: Vaccination Drive Saves Samoa from RFK's Deadly Antivaxxer Propaganda
2. 21% of Students Short on Vaccinations
3. The growing crisis in the insurance market further exacerbates Hawaiʻi’s cost of living crisis
4. State Senate Democrats Outline Priorities for Legislative Session
5. Hawaiian Electric to close Shift and Save time-of-use rates program to new enrollments
6. NRA Grassroots Meeting set for Oahu
7. Hawaii Abortions Down 11% for 2022
8. Maui Eviction Moratorium Ends
9. SURPRISE!  Sale Puts 89% of American Savings Bank Shares in Hands of Mainland Owners
10. 100% Fake: After 14 years of Green Energy Initiative, Hawaii Energy Still 90.8% Fossil Fuel
11. No Surprise: Tulsi Gabbard Flip-Flops on Spying in Desperate Bid to Save Nomination
12. Fake Representative: Mr Kim Coco Iwamoto Calls OHA Development Plan ‘A Good Start’
13. Fake Affordability: DHHL to Evict 57 Households from their affordable condos on Kauai—Suggests They Move to Mainland
14. Real Graft: Legislators rush to hold campaign fundraisers before opening gavel
15. No Surprise: Honolulu Police Commission has been chronic violator of the state’s Sunshine Law
16. Phoney Baloney: Mayor Fooled by Vegas Meth Wholesaler who Hollers ‘Jesus’
17. Fake Food Goal: DOE Gets An F: Hawaiʻi Schools Miss Their First Local Food Target
18. Real Results: Hawaii vacation rental demand drops dramatically

1. Busted in Ibiza: Bumpy Kanahele's Fake 'Diplomat'
2. Hawaii doctor under investigation for murder in woman’s euthanasia death
3. Honolulu Traffic 19th - Worst in USA
4. Schatz: With $1.6B in federal funds, rebuild Lahaina homes now
5. I Moved to Hawaii but Would Return to Oregon Due to the Cost of Living
6. Miske’s ‘Defend Hawaii’ co-defendant sentenced
7. Honolulu Rail Supposed to Reach Airport, Middle Street in 2025
8. Feasibility of a Red Hill Pumped Storage Hydro Facility
9. State Sees A Rare Surge In Death Taxes
10. OHA asks lawmakers for more than $2M to ‘fund positions’
11. Illegal Fireworks Won't Stop Until Neighbors Take Action
12. Solemn procession in downtown Honolulu honors firefighter killed in McCully fire
13. DLE Proposal to create Hawaii highway patrol gets mixed reactions
14. Alternative to Suicide: Hawaii Hospice Collaborative Launches Into ‘New Era’ of Care Delivery
15. Maintenance cited as possible cause of Kamaka crash

1. Fireworks: Culture and Traditions?
2. Electricity-Caused Wildland Fires: Costs, Social Fairness, and Proposed Solution
3. Hawaii #1 -- lost greatest share of population to other states
4. OHA’s new Kakaako housing scam: Give 500 ‘Affordable’ Units to Political Insiders
5. Hearing Blocked: Gabbard blames ‘snow’ for delays in ethics disclosures and FBI background check
6. DLE Makes Excuses for Lack of Fireworks Arrests
7. Fireworks Come To Hawaiʻi On Passenger Jets 'Almost Daily'
8. Kauai police have not made any cockfighting-related arrests in the past five years.
9. Family of man killed by dogs says petty misdemeanor charges are ‘insufficient’
10. Trump promises to end new wind farms
11. City, Legislators Kabuki Theater Inexorably Leads to Continued use of Waimanalo Gulch
12. NIMBYs Block Mililani Teacher Housing Project
13. ACLU Court Win Helps Keep the Homeless, Homeless on Maui

1. US Atty Connors Resigns After Successfully Stopping Hawaii Corruption Prosecutions
2. Oil industry seeks end to climate change lawsuits
3. Kaiser Nurses and Healthcare Workers on Maui and Lanai Ratify New Contract Without Strike
4. RFK Killed 83 in Samoa—How Many Would He Kill in USA?
5. SCAM: Sewer Rate Hike Plan Violates Federal Consent Decree
6. Honolulu Airport: “The millions spent on renovations went into the pockets of dishonest contractors and politicians.” 
7. Do Maui Wildfire Lawyers Deserve $1 Billion In Fees?
8. HECO Proposes Utility-Friendly Wildfire Recovery Fund
9. Honolulu firefighter dies; 5 people injured in McCully building fire
10. ‘They have no skin:’ Phoenix doctors treating victims from Hawaii fireworks explosion
11. Boy, 3, dies from injuries in New Year’s fireworks explosion
12. Fireworks Produce 500% Profit for Criminals
13. A closer look at Miske’s reputation for violence
14. Oahu's housing market “affordability challenges remain a significant hurdle”
15. A New Tax for the New Year: Hawaii's new Transient Accommodations Tax
16. New mayor’s support reignites TMT debate
17. Hawaii Eggs increase to a whopping $10
18. Rules are for the little people: New House Speaker Makes it up as She Goes Along

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted January 3, 2025
2. Political Connections Pay Off: Some ‘affordable’ housing subsidies are a lot fatter than others
3. Double your sewer fees to fund $12.6B boondoggle as big as Rail -- Calvin Say’s last Hurrah
4. Council Members Travel on Your Dime
5. Whale ‘Amakua Censorship: New Age woo-woo stuff masquerading as Hawaiian culture
6. Kapolei HONU moves 104 bums into Shelters
7. Hawaii buys 1-way trips to Guam for homeless?
8. Eco-Activists Thrilled by Opportunity to Shut Down Catamaran Tours
9. The US Spent Billions ‘Fighting Pacific Climate Change’. Where Did It Go? (LOL!)