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Landslide Closes Pali Highway And Seriously Injures Woman
(AP) — Hawaii transportation officials were assessing an unstable slope above the Pali Highway on Tuesday after a landslide seriously injured a woman in the bed of a pickup. The highway was...
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Police Union Goes To Court To Overturn Labor Board Ruling On Officer Transfers
Hawaii’s statewide police union filed a lawsuit last week aimed at Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard and her November 2017 decision to reassign then-union president Tenari Maafala to a midnight...
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10 Charts That Show The Struggle Of Being A Millennial In Hawaii
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Family Is The Safety Net For Many Young Adults On Pricey Oahu
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Special Council Election Requires Hundreds Of New Campaign Finance Reports
Because of the upcoming special election for the East Honolulu City Council seat, about 250 organizations must file extra campaign finance reports whether or not they have an interest in the race. The...
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Banning Bikes At The Capitol Would Make Cycling On Oahu Even Harder
If you’re a casual biker, the Capitol grounds by the bronze statue of Queen Liliuokalani are your only real, safe connection to get between downtown Honolulu and the bustling neighborhoods farther...
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Two Honolulu Police Shootings In Less Than A Day, One Of Them Fatal
Two shootings involving Honolulu police officers have occurred in less than 24 hours. On Wednesday evening, two plainclothes Honolulu police officers shot and killed a man suspected of shoplifting at a...
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Feds Are Investigating HART’s Relocation Payments
The embattled agency overseeing Honolulu’s rail transit project has received a second grand jury subpoena, officials disclosed Thursday. The latest order, which rail officials say they received late...
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Katherine Kealoha Says She’s Mentally Unfit To Stand Trial But The Judge...
The defense attorney for former Honolulu prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, who faces a barrage of felony charges including conspiracy, obstruction of justice, bank fraud, identity theft and trafficking...
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Feds Demand Records Of HART Board’s Closed-Door Meetings
The latest federal grand jury subpoena to hit Honolulu’s rail agency — its third such order in two weeks — might not be as easy to comply with as the first two, project leaders say. That’s because the...
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Judge Releases Potential Juror Who Was Jailed For Shouting ‘He Is Guilty!’
A First Circuit Court judge Wednesday released a prospective juror who was jailed overnight for shouting “He is guilty! He is guilty!” in the presence of his fellow would-be jurors. Judge Edward Kubo...
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Honolulu Corruption: State Will Take Over Some City Prosecutor Cases
The Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has handed off several criminal cases to the Hawaii attorney general’s office due to conflicts of interest apparently arising from the U.S. Justice...
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Whistleblower Lawsuit: HART Mishandled More Than 100 Change Orders
A whistleblower lawsuit filed in California sheds more light on a key issue federal investigators are already probing related to Honolulu rail: the questionable handling of the project’s change orders....
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Katherine Kealoha Says She Needs Cancer Treatment, Wants Trial Delayed
Former deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, who’s accused of framing her uncle with the help of Honolulu police officers including her former police chief husband, asked a federal judge Friday to delay...
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Danny De Gracia: When Are City Leaders Going To Talk To Us About Corruption?
There is a cancer that is growing on Honolulu’s credibility. From the Kealohas, to the ongoing federal investigation of Keith Kaneshiro, to a third subpoena of the troubled Honolulu Authority for Rapid...
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Kealohas’ Trial Delayed Until May For Medical Reasons
A federal judge on Monday agreed to postpone the first in a series of criminal trials facing former Honolulu prosecuting attorney Katherine Kealoha and her co-defendants in order to give her time for...
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Stripping Away The Stereotypes About People With Mental Illness
When Brittany Lyte’s heartbreaking story about an aging mother’s relentless efforts at providing a lifeline to her severely mentally ill daughter was published last week, she got an email from a...
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Federal Probe Has State Looking To Pull Back On Rail Audits
State lawmakers want to repeal an annual rail audit requirement in part, they say, to get out of the way of federal investigators now probing the multibillion-dollar transit project. On Tuesday, the...
View ArticleSLIDESHOW: Growing Food, Fixing Bikes — This Is Kalihi’s Cornerstone
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Embattled Honolulu Prosecutor Takes Immediate Leave Of Absence
Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro is stepping down temporarily amid a federal corruption probe that has spawned indictments of the former Honolulu police chief and the chief’s wife, a...
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