Threat To Drinking Water Remains As Navy Studies Options For Fuel Tanks
Some critics say the Navy isn’t moving fast enough to comply with an 18-month-old agreement to upgrade the underground fuel system at Red Hill. There’s disagreement about whether the project is...
View ArticleCybersecurity Experts Exchange Tricks Of The Trade In Honolulu
When Muks Hirani got the call to go to Saudi Arabia in November, he knew it was serious. The Dubai-based cybersecurity consultant had heard about the re-emergence of the Shamoon virus, which an...
View ArticleSome High-Rise Residents Allowed To Return Home After Deadly Honolulu Fire
(AP) Karen Hastings was in her 31st floor Honolulu apartment when she smelled smoke. She ran out to her balcony, looked down, and saw flames five floors below her. “The fire just blew up and went...
View ArticleCaldwell Supports Adding Sprinklers To Older High-Rises In Wake Of Fire
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Friday called for legislation requiring the retrofitting of older residential high-rises with fire sprinklers after a blaze in Honolulu killed three people. “I think...
View ArticleSome Residents Couldn’t Hear Alarms In Deadly High-Rise Blaze
(AP) — As flames raged through a Honolulu high-rise building, killing three people and injuring a dozen others, some residents didn’t even realize a blaze had broken out until they opened their doors...
View ArticleThis Group Is Helping The Needy By Rescuing Tons Of Food
Almost every morning before sunrise, Aloha Harvest trucks head out to pick up their first food donations of the day. From Monday through Saturday, drivers can be found hauling food from about 40...
View ArticleFire Department Finds Unit Where High-Rise Fire Began
(AP) Fire investigators said Monday the apartment where a deadly fire began in a Honolulu high-rise was near the two units on the 26th floor where the bodies of three victims were found, but they’re...
View ArticleIndustry Cancels Celebration Of Ban On Sprinkler Requirements
The Building Industry Association of Hawaii sent out an invitation Friday for a celebratory pau hana to mark a new law that continues to prohibit counties from requiring single-family and duplex homes...
View ArticleIan Lind: Does The Risk Justify The Cost Of Sprinklers In Older High-Rises?
Friday’s devastating fire in an upper section of the 36-story Marco Polo condominium was one of the the worst in Honolulu history. Three residents in units near the fire’s origin died, victims either...
View ArticleArson Dogs Search For Ignitable Liquids in Marco Polo Unit Where Fire Started
(AP) Fire investigators from the Big Island have arrived in Honolulu with an arson dog to search for ignitable liquids in the apartment where a deadly high-rise blaze broke out last week. Honolulu Fire...
View ArticleTwo Police Commissioners Say Secret Hearings For Cops Are Improper
The Honolulu Police Commission is scheduled to hold closed-door hearings Wednesday to decide whether taxpayers should pay the legal fees of two officers who were sued in relation to an ongoing U.S....
View ArticlePolice Commissioners Clash Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Secret Hearings
Two Honolulu police commissioners threatened to walk out of a public meeting Wednesday after arguing their colleagues were violating the First Amendment and state law requiring open governmental...
View ArticleInsurance May Not Be Enough For Some Marco Polo Condo Owners
For Vasana Chiu, the one-bedroom condominium with a lanai overlooking Waikiki Beach and the azure Pacific Ocean beyond, was her dream place. But the dream vanished last week when a fire destroyed her...
View ArticleHonolulu City Council May Seek Crackdown On Waikiki ‘Floatilla’ Events
A Honolulu City Council committee will consider a resolution Tuesday asking the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to ban alcohol and disorderly behavior at holiday “floatillas” off Waikiki...
View ArticleMany US Cities Still Have High-Rise Buildings Without Sprinklers
HONOLULU — When Moon Yun Pellerin’s parents bought a 27th-floor apartment in a high-rise overlooking Waikiki about 15 years ago, they didn’t realize the wave-shaped building had no fire sprinklers. “We...
View ArticleHonolulu Council Considers Another Expansion Of Sit-Lie Ban
The Honolulu City Council is considering a bill that would expand the city’s sit-lie ban another few blocks in the Ala Moana-Sheridan area. The bill would add to the growing list of Honolulu sidewalks...
View ArticleHonolulu’s Potholes Cost Drivers — And Taxpayers — Millions
Everybody, it seems, has something to say about potholes. Take Renee Castle, a regular bicyclist in the Manoa Valley who said she’ll sometimes “swerve to miss one and end up hitting three or four.” Or...
View ArticleCouncil Members Put Mayor’s Call For Sprinkler Retrofitting On Hold
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s bill to require that older residential high-rises be retrofitted with sprinklers in the wake of the fatal Marco Polo condominium fire was put on hold Tuesday by City...
View ArticleJudge Blasts Honolulu Prosecutors Over Handling Of Theft Case
A Hawaii Circuit Court judge dismissed a felony theft case Monday against a Honolulu architect after voicing grave concerns about the circumstances that led to the charges. Judge Karen Nakasone...
View ArticleDream Plan or Pipe Dream? Group Pushes Street-Level Rail For Honolulu
To Scott Wilson, a local architect leading a seemingly quixotic push to dramatically alter the Honolulu rail project, the idea is more than a pipe dream. Wilson’s group, Salvage the Rail, has proposed...
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