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The Search For The Next Honolulu Police Chief Is Still Bogged Down
It has been months since the Honolulu Police Commission gave a substantive update on the search for the next police chief and Wednesday’s commission meeting brought more of the same. The list of...
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Water Samples Damaged In Latest Setback To Honolulu’s Contamination Crisis
Test results by the Hawaii Department of Health are providing few answers about the contamination of the Navy’s drinking water after several samples were damaged in transit and couldn’t be tested. Late...
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Hawaii’s Leadership Calls For Suspension Of Navy’s Red Hill Fuel Facility
Hawaii Gov. David Ige and the state’s entire congressional delegation called on the secretary of the Navy to immediately suspend operations at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility amid a water...
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In Kaimuki, Eclectic Businesses Are Rising From The Ashes Of The Pandemic
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Anca Balbaie, the chef, social media manager, cashier and general shopkeeper at the new restaurant and grocery Papa Cristo’s on Waialae Avenue, looked out the window and...
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Delay In Confirming Petroleum-Laced Water Exposes Need For Local Test Site
The threat of the Navy’s fuel operations contaminating Oahu’s drinking water has been known for years, but in that time no local, state or federal agency has established a lab that could quickly and...
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Ige Orders Navy To Remove Fuel From Red Hill Until Water Problem Is Fixed
Hawaii Gov. David Ige is ordering the U.S. Navy to formulate a plan to empty the fuel from its World War II-era Red Hill facility amid a water contamination crisis that sickened military families and...
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Lawsuit Alleges Honolulu Police Shot, Killed Man With No Justification
The family of a 27-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Honolulu police officer two years ago is suing the city for wrongful death. Dana Brown was shot and killed at Campbell Industrial Park on...
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It Could Cost Billions For The Navy To Move Red Hill Fuel
The Department of Defense is grappling with what it will take to remove the jet fuel from the Red Hill underground facility in response to increasing political pressure to address the still-unfolding...
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Navy’s Opposition To Governor’s Red Hill Order Raises Question Of State...
The U.S. Navy is opposing an order Gov. David Ige issued on Monday to suspend all operations at its Red Hill fuel facility and start formulating a plan to empty its tanks, a dispute that may test the...
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HART Agrees To Install Equipment To Mitigate Electricity Issues
The Honolulu rail authority has agreed to install special equipment to prevent any sudden swings in the electric voltage as the electric trains depart from the stations in neighborhoods around the rail...
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Navy Finds Contamination In Second Well And Identifies Pollutant At Red Hill...
Navy officials reported to state leaders on Wednesday that they have identified the drinking water contaminant in the Navy’s Red Hill shaft as jet fuel and also have found additional contamination in a...
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Kahikina Is Named Honolulu Rail’s Third Permanent Executive Director
As rail’s interim executive director for 2021, Lori Kahikina guided Hawaii’s largest-ever public works project through yet another tumultuous year – one that saw maddening construction woes,...
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Red Hill Has Changed The Politics Around The Military In Hawaii
WASHINGTON — Jan. 13, 2014 was supposed to be a wake-up call. On that day, a 27,000-gallon jet fuel leak from the Navy’s WWII-era underground storage facility at Red Hill threatened to contaminate...
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Navy Says Second Well Might Not Be Contaminated, Prompting Confusion
A day after the Navy said it had detected diesel in its Aiea Halawa well at levels more than double the state safety limit, the military backtracked on Thursday, saying the contaminated sample “did not...
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Handi-Van Servers Hit By A Cyberattack, Forcing Passengers To Rebook Rides
Usually, when Lei Kema has a doctor’s appointment, she reserves a Handi-Van to get there. However, for her back-to-back appointments scheduled for Friday morning the 83-year-old Ahuimanu resident said...
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Chinatown May Get More Affordable Housing For Older Adults, Plus A Hotel
Chinatown, one of the oldest neighborhoods on Oahu, consists mainly of two-story buildings with shops on the first floor and living quarters on the second. Towering over those buildings are several...
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Lee Cataluna: The Red Hill Water Crisis Is A Wake-Up Call For Oahu
Concerns have been raised for years about fuel from the Navy’s massive Red Hill underground tank facility leaking into drinking water, but the Navy always downplayed the danger. Then people in military...
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State Finds Red Hill Contamination Far Above Health Thresholds For Drinking...
State testing of the Navy’s Red Hill shaft found levels of gasoline and diesel-range hydrocarbons as much as 350 times higher than state approved levels for drinking water, the state Department of...
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How The Red Hill Fuel System Has Threatened Oahu’s Drinking Water For Decades
As Oahu residents reel from the news that military families’ drinking water was contaminated with petroleum, and that water for the broader community is also at risk, scrutiny of the nearby Navy’s fuel...
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Independent Audit Alleges $2M Discrepancy In Hanauma Bay Funds
A long-awaited independent audit examining the city’s use of revenues from the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve found a $2 million discrepancy, according to a nonprofit group that advocates for the premiere...
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