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Catherine Toth Fox: The Big Business Of Pokemon Comes To Honolulu
On Wednesday I stood on the Great Lawn of the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki, watching a life-size Pikachu help kick off the 2024 Pokemon World Championships going on this weekend in Honolulu. I was surrounded by dozens of YouTubers and social media influencers — all armed with iPhones and...
HART Reaches ‘Huge Milestone’ With Contract Award For City Center Guideway And 6 Stations
The Honolulu rail authority has finally awarded the long-awaited contract to design and build three miles of elevated rail line and six stations through the city’s urban core from Middle Street to the Civic Center station near South Street. The $1.66 billion proposal by the Los Angeles-based Tutor Perini...
Man Killed In Waianae Is The Fourth Officer-Involved Shooting Death This Year
A Honolulu police officer killed an armed suspect in Waianae Wednesday night after he had shot three people and refused to drop his weapon, according to Honolulu police Chief Joe Logan. Officers responded to reports of an argument in the street and shots fired on Puhinalo Place after 6 p.m....
Staffing Shortages Plus More Cases Are Causing Delays At The State Public Housing Agency
The Hawaii Public Housing Authority has reduced the amount of time it can spend meeting with Honolulu tenants in the low-income housing program. That cutback combined with other changes across the state are frustrating tenants and their advocates over what they say is the agency’s increasingly slow and inconsistent communication efforts.
A Maui County Appointee Oversaw Grants To Nonprofits Tied To Her Family Members
Two nonprofits with family ties to Luana Mahi, an economic development director for Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, won more than $1 million in county grants overseen by Mahi since she was appointed in 2023. Mahi’s husband Kalani Mahi was paid directly under a county grant for a watershed project. A...
Here’s A Look At The Real Reformers On The Ballot — Democrats, Republicans And Green
If supporters of reforming state government were looking for a signature victory, they certainly got it when Kim Coco Iwamoto ousted House Speaker Scott Saiki in Saturday’s primary. Iwamoto has long been an outspoken advocate of bringing more transparency to the Legislature while Saiki represented the status quo, much...
Generations Of Immigrants Have Forged A Unique Asian Tattoo Culture In Hawaii
Ryoma Uno, a Japanese American tattoo artist based on Oahu, describes his professional journey as “weird.”. As a young student in Tokyo, he was fascinated by the Western world — punk rock, heavy metal, motorcycles like Harley-Davidsons, and naturally, the tattoos that his idols proudly flashed. When he moved to Hawaii at 13 with his family, he strived to put his Japanese identity behind him, prioritizing his new life in America.
Emergency Proclamation On Condo Insurance Doesn’t Solve The Problem
This quote comes from Deane Gardenhome Assn. v. Dentkas, a 1993 California case: “All too often attorney fees become the tail that wags the dog in litigation.”. It may also be said that attorney fees may be the tail that wags the dog in rising insurance costs. Natural catastrophic events are not the only causes of increased insurance costs.
Maui Wildfires Smoldered Underground, Threatening Water For Agriculture
The wildfires that burned across Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 became the deadliest conflagration in the United States in more than a century. While the harm to homes and tourism drew the most attention, agriculture was also heavily affected across the island, and the harm did not stop once the flames were out.
Struggling to Keep or Find Housing After Maui’s Wildfires? Tell Us Your Story.
People on Maui have heard the stories: neighbors forced from their homes not by last year’s wildfires, but by property owners seeking to take advantage of the housing shortage. In some cases, tenants have said property owners have rented to government aid programs that offered top dollar to shelter wildfire survivors. In others, landlords have rented to others who will pay more.
Suspect Used Batteries, Shrapnel And A Pipe To Make Explosives Found On Maui, Investigators Say
Federal prosecutors have charged a 47-year-old Kahului man in connection with improvised explosive devices found around Maui in recent weeks. Robert Francis Dumaran is being held without bail at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu following his arrest on Saturday. The complaint was unsealed Tuesday. Maui police and the FBI...
Chemical Plume Found In Closed Aiea Drinking Wells May Come From Red Hill
Honolulu Board of Water Supply tests taken this summer indicate that a plume of contaminants found in fuels and other industrial sources recently drifted through a pair of shuttered and sealed drinking wells in Aiea. The local water agency believes the plume of so-called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, may...
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