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People who report being diagnosed with a behavioral, emotional or mental disorder can no longer be prevented from registering a firearm in the City and County of Honolulu, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson made permanent a preliminary injunction he issued in November, which ruled...

Been To Therapy? You Can Still Register Your Firearm In Honolulu, Judge Rules

Three Honolulu police officers believe they shouldn’t have to be part of a lawsuit that contends they used excessive force and wrongfully arrested a 10-year-old girl at school over a supposedly offensive drawing in 2020. The officers, Christine Nevez, Warren Ford and Corey Perez, handcuffed the girl at Honowai...

Honolulu Officers Who Arrested 10-Year-Old Want Protection From Lawsuit

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The former chief building inspector in Honolulu will go to prison for five years and pay a hefty fine after he admitted to taking over $100,000 in bribes over the course of several years and trying to cover it up after he got caught. Wayne Inouye, 66, worked for Honolulu’s...

Ex-Honolulu Building Inspector Gets 5 Years In Prison For Bribery

With the Salary Commission’s proposed pay increases set to kick in with the new fiscal year on July 1, the Kaimuki Neighborhood Board is rallying other boards to pressure Honolulu City Council members into holding a vote on the measure. Council members are set to receive a controversial 64%...

Calls Mount For The Honolulu City Council To Vote On Salary Increases

Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high tides makes many city roads impassable, and water mains for the public drinking water system are corroding from saltwater because of sea level rise. The damage has left...

Honolulu’s Lawsuit Against Big Oil Over Sea Level Rise Just Got A Boost From The Supreme Court

The nuclear option: It was nestled somewhere in the middle of the 93 (and counting) reader comments about our Sunday report on Tommy Waters defending the big raises that he and his fellow Honolulu City Council members are likely to receive soon. “Everyone keeps saying, ‘Wait till next election,’” the...

The Sunshine Blog: Rumblings Of Recall Amid Honolulu Pay Raise Uproar

Backed by a new federal grant, a team of eight conservation groups is launching an effort to restore the natural watersheds in a mostly urban, developed part of Honolulu using traditional Hawaiian land management principles. The $7.8 million project, funded through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, starts Thursday and...

‘This Is Gold’: An Unprecedented Push To Restore Urban Honolulu Watersheds From Ridge To Reef

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It might have seemed like the end of the discussion when lawmakers killed a bill to provide $100 million over two years to build roads and utility systems for a first responders’ training facility near Mililani. But that was no problem for the project’s main champion, Senate Ways and...

Top State Officials Were Behind A Secretive Process That Steered Millions To A First Responders Center

A Honolulu police officer violated his department’s use-of-force policy when he shot a man before arresting him in 2021, a lawsuit filed Wednesday says. In May 2021, when trying to arrest a suspect who was driving a vehicle, Christopher Goshi, a plainclothes Crime Reduction Unit officer, allegedly remained in the vehicle’s path and then, once it crashed into a concrete post, shot the driver five times, according to the complaint.

Lawsuit: HPD Officer Violated Policy When He Shot A Man In A Car

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Recent vacancy tax proposals such as Honolulu’s Bill 9 and Bill 76 have been inspired by the belief that vacant or “empty” homes are a significant cause of Hawaii’s housing crisis. However, a comprehensive study of available data conducted by researchers at the Grassroot Institute of...

An ‘Empty Homes’ Tax Won’t Fix Hawaii’s Housing Crisis

Honolulu City Council Chair Tommy Waters and council member Esther Kiaaina introduced two measures on Thursday that would prohibit council members from engaging in outside employment, a change that would effectively recognize council work as being a full-time commitment. This comes after the Honolulu Salary Commission’s controversial decision to increase...

Honolulu Council Members Seek To Make The Chamber A Full-Time Job Amid Pay Criticism

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Miske Files: Alleged Crime Boss May Not Get A Las Vegas Trial But He Could Get Another Delay

Friday turned out to be an unusually busy and consequential day in the prosecution of former Honolulu business owner and alleged racketeering boss Michael J. Miske...

Miske Files: Alleged Crime Boss May Not Get A Las Vegas Trial But He Could Get Another Delay

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