Former Certified Hawaii CEO Charged with 14 Felony Counts of Theft
Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro announced Friday that his office is charging the former CEO of Certified Hawaii, now called Associa Hawaii, with 14 counts of felony theft in the first degree and...
View ArticleHonolulu Median Home Price Reaches Record $719K Due to High-End Sales
The median price of a home in Honolulu hit a historic $719,500 in November, according to new data from the Honolulu Board of Realtors. The previous record high was $700,000 in June. Honolulu Board of...
View ArticleWill Honolulu Police Commission Hold Chief Kealoha Accountable?
Embattled Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha should face tough questions next week from the people who control the fate of his job. If he doesn’t, state lawmakers are poised to rewrite the rules to...
View ArticleWill Honolulu’s Sit-Lie Ban Expand Again to Target the Homeless Outside Malls?
Half a dozen homeless people congregated on the open pavement and planters that line Union Mall in downtown Honolulu on Wednesday afternoon. One man talked to himself as he collected bottles from a...
View ArticleHonolulu Zoo has Big Plans for Japanese Giant Salamanders
The Honolulu Zoo wants to bring Japanese giant salamanders to Hawaii, an idea that might be helped by the recent signing of a “sister zoo” agreement last month with the Asa Zoo in Hiroshima. They’re...
View ArticleLiving Hawaii: The Little Solution to the Big Housing Crisis
At some point, perhaps in the next year or two, the 1 millionth person will settle in the urban center of a remote archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. If that resident is a grown-up, she or...
View ArticleFBI Asked to Probe Whether Honolulu Police Mishandled Chief’s Mailbox Theft Case
The FBI has been asked to investigate how the Honolulu Police Department handled a case involving HPD Chief Louis Kealoha, his stolen mailbox and his wife’s estranged uncle, who was accused in the...
View ArticleHonolulu Police Commission Defers Chief Kealoha Investigation
The Honolulu Police Commission will not launch its own investigation into Police Chief Louis Kealoha for his actions related to a family dispute involving his prosecutor wife and her estranged uncle,...
View ArticleOff the Rails: Honolulu Transit Project Up to $700M Over Budget
Honolulu’s $5.2 billion rail project could go over budget by as much as $700 million, causing Mayor Kirk Caldwell and top transit officials to seek more funds elsewhere. On Thursday, Honolulu Authority...
View ArticleCaldwell Won’t Discuss the Problems of Honolulu’s Police Chief
Mayor Kirk Caldwell won’t discuss recent events surrounding Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha’s stolen mailbox or any of the questions it has raised about whether the public can trust that its police...
View ArticleCourt Rejects Tommy Waters’ Election Challenge for Honolulu City Council
The Hawaii Supreme Court has rejected Tommy Waters’ challenge of the election results in the Honolulu City Council District 4 race, in which Trevor Ozawa won by just 41 votes. Waters had argued there...
View ArticleSlideshow: President and First Lady Pay Christmas Visit to Troops
Headed for Kaneohe President Barack Obama’s motorcade rolls out of his Kailua vacation neighborhood on its way to the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe. Unlike during vacation stops such as the First Family...
View ArticleLiving Hawaii: Going Mobile — Could Life on the Road Help Reduce the Price of...
Life was closing in on Mike Wooten in 2012. He was laid off from his North Shore teaching job. Then he and his roommates were told to move out of their home within 30 days so the owner could move in....
View ArticleGot a $700M Shortfall? Set the Cycle to ‘Spin’
It’s hard to put a positive spin on a $700 million shortfall, but Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell and top officials from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation sure tried when publicly announcing...
View ArticleCaldwell: City Meets Road Repaving Goal for 2014
Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s administration has met its goal of paving at least 300 lane miles of dilapidated roads annually throughout Oahu for the second year in a row. In 2014, the city’s Department of...
View ArticleHonolulu City Council Continues on Collision Course With Mayor
Honolulu City Council Chair Ernie Martin stood at a podium in Honolulu Hale’s council chambers on Friday, draped in leis and easily cracked jokes as he addressed a sea of state and city dignitaries who...
View ArticleUrban Hawaii: What Does Future Hold for Honolulu — and Us?
Editor’s Note: Kakaako. Kapolei. Koa Ridge and Hoopili. Envision Laie. Oahu continues its own particular pace and process of development and urbanization. Today we begin a new regular column, “Urban...
View ArticleSenators Want Better Management of HPD, Ask For ‘Co-Chiefs’
Four state lawmakers are calling on the Honolulu Police Commission to appoint someone to help Police Chief Louis Kealoha run his department in light of recent events involving his mailbox, a mistrial,...
View ArticleUrban Hawaii: Who Is Remaking Kakaako?
How you feel about the urbanization of Honolulu and Hawaii can depend on where you’re coming from. I’m coming from traffic. I’m looking ahead at more gridlock as I approach the IBM building at the...
View ArticleHonolulu Nonprofits Say the City Is Ignoring Them on Loan Requests
Several Oahu nonprofits say they have been waiting as long as three years to hear back from the city on their requests to have about $9 million in loans forgiven — money they received to help house...
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