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Honolulu Rail P3 Bidder Wants More Than $2 Billion For The Final Stretch
One of the companies vying to finish Honolulu rail under a public-private partnership revealed itself during a recent quarterly earnings call, but the price its executive quoted vastly exceeds what...
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Honolulu Mayor’s Race: ‘It’s Not Dirty Politics, It’s Just Politics’
For weeks, Honolulu mayoral candidate Keith Amemiya has been trading blows with a super PAC trying to derail his campaign with false and misleading allegations linking him to political corruption....
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Honolulu Rail Board May Replace CEO Andrew Robbins
The board overseeing Honolulu rail is poised to replace its latest executive director, three years after he was hired to help reform the long-troubled transit project and usher it to completion. Andrew...
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Developer Withdraws Application For Embattled Affordable Housing Project In...
Facing sustained and fierce community opposition, the developer of a planned affordable housing complex in Kailua has withdrawn her project’s application for certain construction exemptions one day...
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New Honolulu Plan Opens Beaches, Parks, Social Gatherings To Groups Of 5
Honolulu will allow gatherings of up to five people and reopen some businesses on Thursday as it implements a new plan that will guide the pandemic response going forward, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell...
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Honolulu Employee Used City Truck To Drive To Football Games, Ethics...
The Honolulu Ethics Commission is recommending a six-day unpaid suspension for an employee who used a city vehicle to drive to football games three weekends in a row in 2017. “The Ethics Commission...
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Alan Texeira Sworn In To Replace Ikaika Anderson
Former Honolulu City Council Chair Ikaika Anderson’s deputy chief of staff was officially sworn in to take over his seat on Wednesday afternoon. Alan Texeira will now represent District 3, which...
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Robbins Keeps His Job, But Rail Faces More ‘Substantial’ Impacts To Schedule...
Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation Executive Director Andrew Robbins will keep his job, for now. At least three agency board members on Thursday opposed the effort to replace him, which was...
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Honolulu Pulls Out Of Public-Private Partnership Plan For Rail
In yet another big blow to Honolulu rail, the city announced Friday that it is pulling out of the effort to land a private-sector partner to complete construction and operate the 20-mile system during...
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How Honolulu’s Mayoral Candidates Would Tackle The Pandemic
On Jan. 2, a new mayor will take over Honolulu local government and the island’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. If Rick Blangiardi, the former Hawaii News Now general manager, is elected, he said...
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Honolulu Mayor Candidates Debate Whether To Debate
Honolulu mayoral candidate Keith Amemiya is calling on his opponent Rick Blangiardi to debate him after Blangiardi declined two invitations to do so. According to the Amemiya campaign, KITV4 and Hawaii...
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HPD Crime-Solving Record Is The Worst Its Been In At Least 40 Years
If you are the victim of a crime in Honolulu, odds are that charges will never be filed in the case. FBI data released Monday shows that the Honolulu Police Department is far below the national average...
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What’s Stalling The Effort To Update Honolulu’s Parking Policies?
On Sept. 2, the Honolulu City Council was slated to consider Bill 2, a sweeping measure that would overhaul parking requirements on future development in Oahu’s urban areas. The city legislation...
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Malicious Prosecution Lawsuit Will Cost Taxpayers $1.4 Million In Settlement
The Honolulu City Council is poised to pay $1.4 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit involving a botched gambling case charged by Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro and one of...
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Waikiki Councilman Raises Late Objection To State’s Pre-Travel Test Plans
Two weeks before Hawaii plans to reopen to tourists, the Honolulu City Council member who represents Waikiki has come out in opposition to Gov. David Ige’s reopening plan, saying more than 40% of...
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Lee Cataluna: HPD’s Shameful Crime-Solving Record Shouldn’t Be Tolerated
About a year ago, I was sitting in a meeting in downtown Honolulu when, all of a sudden, there were strange sounds coming from the ceiling. Something had gotten in through the roof and was crawling...
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Here’s How Honolulu’s Mayoral Candidates Differ — Or Not — On Police Reform
This year, protesters across the country and the world have called for a stop to police brutality and racism in policing and demanded more transparency and accountability from police officers. The...
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Caldwell: ‘Phased’ Construction Of Rail If The Project Runs Out Of Cash
As rail faces another potential budget crisis, Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Monday suggested a “phased” approach to finish the transit project’s last 4 miles to Ala Moana should it run out of funding again....
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Honolulu Agencies Asked To Identify Potential Budget Cuts Up To 10%
To avoid having to furlough or lay off employees, the City and County of Honolulu has asked each of its departments to propose cuts of 5% to 10% of their operating expenses. The island’s local...
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Voters Will Have Their Say On A Proposed Honolulu Youth Commission
When the Honolulu City Council considered Bill 40 in 2019 to ban the sale of styrofoam products and some single-use plastic products, a good many of the testifiers in support were members of Generation...
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