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Honolulu To Get $91 Million For Transit During Coronavirus Outbreak
Honolulu is slated to receive almost $91 million in federal funding to help keep public transit running amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Those dollars are part of a $25 billion package that looks to help...
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Construction Resumes At Waimanalo Park Despite Pandemic And Protest
The protesters weren’t allowed to linger in front of the construction site. Since loitering in city parks during the COVID-19 pandemic invites a criminal citation, those who objected to the excavator...
View ArticleHonolulu Police To Increase Stay-At-Home Order Enforcement
Honolulu police will step up its enforcement of the statewide stay-at-home order, the department announced in a tweet. The Honolulu Police Department has already been enforcing the order, which has...
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Oahu Traffic Is Gone, For All The Wrong Reasons
It should have been the best news ever: Traffic, vanished across Oahu. Go ahead, pull up Google Maps on your phone. There’s nothing but little green lines weaving across the screen to indicate clear...
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New Honolulu Tent Program Will Allow Social Distancing For The Homeless
Unsheltered homeless people on Oahu who do not have COVID-19 symptoms are being encouraged to isolate themselves in a new tent program run by the city, Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced on Tuesday. The...
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Caldwell Stops Waimanalo Project ‘Indefinitely’ After Bone Discovery
A day after Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell reaffirmed his ardent support for the construction project at Sherwood Forest, the mayor announced the discovery of iwi at the site and said work would be put...
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Nonprofit Plans To Stock Oahu Public Bathrooms During Pandemic
During the COVID-19 outbreak, homeless people’s access to clean, well-stocked bathrooms is important for controlling the spread of the virus, federal health officials say. With that in mind, Hui Aloha,...
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Repaving Of Magic Island Parking Lot To Begin Monday
An extensive reconstruction project at Honolulu’s Magic Island parking lot will kick off on Monday. The 470-stall Aina Moana parking lot will be completely repaved and re-striped and will have a new...
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Nighttime ‘No Driving’ Rules To Be In Place On Oahu Over Easter Weekend
A three-night restriction on driving will go into effect for Oahu on Friday night, Mayor Kirk Caldwell and Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard announced Thursday. The rules, which officials are calling...
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COVID-19 Slows Honolulu Rail Progress, Could Delay Opening
COVID-19 is taking its toll on Honolulu rail, threatening to delay even further a $9 billion transit project whose completion was already pushed back at least six years. Specifically, the global...
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Honolulu To Use Drones To Enforce Stay-At-Home Order
The Honolulu Fire Department will deploy drone teams Friday to popular beach areas to enforce the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. Honolulu Fire Department drone flies along Waikiki Beach notifying people...
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How Honolulu Lost Its Top Ranking For The Nation’s Worst Traffic
That Honolulu had some of the nation’s worst traffic used to be gospel in Hawaii. National studies backed it up. One of the most quoted sources for that among local media was INRIX, the renowned...
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Coronavirus Won’t Stop Father And Son From Finishing Community Project
The project to build a large toolshed at the Makiki Community Garden began three months ago with more than 20 boys helping out. Then came the coronavirus. “Obviously, with the current virus situation,...
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Caldwell: No More Night Driving Restrictions For Oahu
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell says there will be no more nightly driving restrictions on Oahu after testing out those restrictions over the Easter weekend. Over the three-day weekend, drivers were told...
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Honolulu Will Require Masks At Businesses And Riding Transit
People visiting essential businesses and those riding mass transit on Oahu will be required to wear a facial covering starting next week, Mayor Kirk Caldwell said on Tuesday. At grocery stores,...
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Coronavirus Site For Oahu’s Homeless Will Not Offer Testing
A facility in Iwilei that was announced as a one-stop, walk-in site where homeless people could be screened, tested and quarantined for COVID-19 is not providing screening or testing after all....
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Paused For Pandemic, Honolulu Homeless Sweeps To Resume
Honolulu will officially resume the clearing of homeless encampments next week to steer unsheltered people toward a quarantine tent program run by the police department, the mayor announced on...
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HART Explores Ways To Keep Rail Work Going Amid COVID-19 Setbacks
Shimmick Traylor Granite is already building Honolulu’s rail transit line as far east as Middle Street. Now, project officials are weighing whether to have the firm build a few blocks farther into town...
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Rick Blangiardi Is Back On TV, But This Time He’s A Political Candidate
For years, Rick Blangiardi was a familiar presence to viewers of Hawaii News Now, KGMB and KHNL. As general manager of the three sister stations, he starred in mini-editorials called “Local...
View ArticleThree More Accuse Punahou’s Former Basketball Coach Of Sexual Abuse
Three former Punahou School students have accused a former assistant girls basketball coach of sexual abuse. The male coach had previously been accused by two other students. Punahou President Michael...
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