1. HTA Board Positions Open
2. VIDEO: HFD Chief Hao on the Māʻili wildfire
3. 42 More Homeless Beds Available in Iwilei
4. SHOPO Bags Three Chiefs—Swing and a miss on Maui
5. Hawai‘i County Police Commission to discuss appointment of interim chief at next meeting
6. Could this Hawaii community be the next Lahaina? Some residents fear a similar wildfire fate
7. To Clear Out Zombies, City Council considers ‘Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District’
8. Maui Council advances bills for agricultural tourism and food trucks in ag districts
9. Hawaii homeowners face hurricane insurance challenges
10. Honolulu regulators decide not to issue any violations for railing collapse at Moana Surfrider
11. Jury selection to begin in civil trial over fatal police shooting in Nuuanu
12. Hawaii wannabe Trumpshooter Ryan Routh offers himself for prisoner swap with US adversaries in letter shared by judge

1. Chinese Naval Vessel Spotted Off Hawaiian Coast
2. Green Signed 313 Bills Into law
3. Prosecutors Win on Appeal -- Maui Hate Criminals to get more time in prison after beating white man with a shovel
4. Lahaina Strong Helping Trump Abolish FEMA--Administration Pretends to Take Mrs Kaniela Ing’s Sex-for-Food Stories Seriously
5. Moszkowicz Forced out as Big Island Chief (now he can try for HPD Chief)
6. Blangiardi Blindsided by Rade Vanic’s Interest in Top Job
7. Lawmakers' Plan To Give $50M To Nonprofits May Be Unconstitutional
8. Solar Scammers Gather on Maui for More Self-Serving Rhetoric

1. Auditor Dings Hawaii ERS Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
2. Green Signs SB933, HB420, HB431
3. Katherine Kealoha’s Dope Dealing Brother Schemes to Get out of Prison
4. Deed Restrictions to Create Locals-Only Housing Market?
5. Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million
6. Maui County Slow to Correct Fire Death-Trap Lahaina Roadways
7. Lawsuit to Challenge $50M Legislative Slush Fund?
8. Burden For Preventing Drownings In Hawaiʻi Falls On Counties — And Residents
9. Downtown property owners willing to pay for sanitation, safety improvements
10. Nanakuli residents want more access to emergency road
11. Trump De-Funds One Tiny Piece of UH Manoa Global Warming Hysteria Generation System
12. Global Warmers Claim Waikiki Stormwater Drainage System Will Fail
13. Military watching Chinese naval ship near Hawaii
14. Usual suspects gin up ICE Controversy
15. Controversial CEO of Domestic Violence Action Center Steps Down

1. Green Signs $4B Lahaina Settlement Bill
2. SB933CD1: Shell Bill Gives Legislators $50M to Dole out to their Friends
3. Maui County Sewer Rates Jump 9%
4. Paid in full. Trust? Still pending.
5. Carpenters Union Announces Plan to Harass Non-Union Contractors
6. Good Jobs Hawaiʻi participants see significant wage gains, UHERO finds
7. Firearm Permits Subject of Hawaii County PD Hearing
8. Maui Bill 76: Restore Farmers' Food Truck Rights
9. Green Signs SB1231 Giving Gays More Opportunity to Get Children
10. ‘Wheeling’ Means UH Will Clutter West Oahu Ag land With Solar Farms
11. Will Solar Incentives Impact Non-Participants?
12. ‘Affordable’ Housing $2,500 / Month
13. ‘Affordable’ Housing $556K per unit

1. 79.1% of Homeowners in Hawaii Will Face a Hidden Home Equity Tax If They Sell
2. Green Signs Condo Insurance Stabilization Law
3. OHA-Connected DTL Selected to Handle Iwilei Master Planning
4. Feds seek forfeiture of luxury Kahala home tied to fraud conviction of former defense contractor
5. HELCO will File New Hu Honua Power Purchase Agreement
6. 94-year-old woman, critically injured in Maili wildfire, dies
7. Island of Retaliation: Kauaʻi Police Chief Job Posting Gets 42 Applicants
8. DMV promises end to registration delays in 'next few weeks'
9. ICE agents stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
10. Green Signs Electric ‘Wheeling’ Law
11. The 25 best high schools for athletes in Hawaii

1. Hawaii’s Police Corruption Scandal: Cash Flow to Crooks Continues
2. July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
3. Building New Schools
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 3, 2025
5. Only 48% of Hawaiʻi HS Seniors Apply for College Financial Aid –Sharply Down After COVID
6. Maui County Gears Up For Legal Challenges From Former Employees
7. Happy News: With No Federal Halfway House in Hawaiʻi, Inmates Remain Far From Home
8. Maili wildfire –Many did not receive Evacuation Notice
9. Waianae lunch turns into fast exit as diners flee from Maili wildfire

1. Green signs bills aimed at alleviating Hawaii’s housing shortage
2. Blue State Blues: One-Party Control? In Hawaiʻi It’s More Like No-Party Control
3. What Did Green Veto?
4. Police chief to face commission on Thursday
5. With old ‘leaders’ ousted, Hawai‘i Tourism Authority finally resolves late invoices, interest payments
6. Third Parties Petitioning for Hawaii Ballot Access
7. Air Force suspends SpaceX project on Pacific atoll

1. Testimony: Bill 9 Debunked by Former AG David Louie
2. Over 400 building permits have been issued for Lahaina rebuilds so far
3. Honolulu rail project streamlines stations and tactics to save money
4. ACLU Very Excited to Learn Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center to house ICE detainees

1. The Verified Complaint In Equity: The Declaration Of Independence
2. The 1840 Hawaiian Constitution and the Fourth of July
3. Green Finalizes Veto Decisions
4. Green: 'Big Beautiful Bill' Cuts MedQuest and EBT Cards
5. Hawaii prison guard gets eight years for sexually abusing inmates
6. Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family
7. DPP to Launch New On-Line Permitting System
8. Shakedown: How Can Hawaii insiders get money out of US military training lease renewal talks?
9. New law cuts retirement benefits for judges
10. City ‘struggling to keep up’ with car registration backlog, impacting thousands on Oahu
11. Former Oahu prison guard sentenced to 8 years in prison for sexually abusing inmates 
12. Retired MFD battalion chief reindicted for sexually assaulting minor
13. Police not helping with immigration arrests –but ACLU Still Trying to Turn ‘No’ into ‘Yes’

Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family

1. In Chile, where science is appreciated, UH Telescope discovers visitor from outside solar system
2. Maui Council panel recesses secret vacation rental deliberations until July 23
3. Leadership overhaul continues at the Hawaii Tourism Authority
4. Hawaii solar companies say Trump’s proposed tax credit cut is a blow to business
5. Big Island soda theft case highlights mental health treatment gaps
6. Crime On Oʻahu Is Down Except In One Category — Murder

1. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
2. Red Hill: BWS Sues Navy for $1.2B
3. Hawai‘i’s state road usage charge begins for electric vehicles on July 1
4. After Much Gnashing of Teeth, OHA Trustees Approve Amended Budget
5. The Only Real Strategy for Tourism is to Make it Cost More
6. After threatening $2.19M fine, DOH admits East Hawaii Urgent Care clinics have resolved paperwork issue
7. Green Line-Item Vetoes $90M in Bogus DoE ‘Maintenance’
8. How Oahu Lawsuit Settlement Neuters Law Against Vacation Rentals
9. 86 drown on the North Shore of Oʻahu in Decade
10. Maui Council advances Honuaʻula project amendments with a slim 5-4 vote in marathon session
11. Lahaina Is Rising Slowly
12. Girl Scouts of Hawaii's new plan to put a troop at every public elementary school in the state
13. Maui Police arrest new MPD employee for sex assault allegations
14. Hawaii Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill, After Calling One Of Its Provisions 'A Grave Violation Of Privacy'

1. Obscure federal laws could preserve birthright citizenship in Alaska, Hawaii, and Territories
2. Lawsuit Challenges “Dam Special Fund” Used to Undermine Constitutional Expenditure Controls
3. Aloha Stadium FAIL: NASED Lists Latest Excuses
4. May Tourist Count up 1%
5. Puna Meth Lab Busted
6. HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
7. Green Signs State Budget
8. Visitors Donated Millions To Maui. Where Did It Go?
9. Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska/Hawaii SNAP carveout
10. More Than $100 Million Cut From Hawaiʻi State Budget
11. ‘Dehumanizing Chaos’: OHA budget pits CEO against Chair of the Board
12. Immigration: Ed Case Thinks for Himself
13. Prosecutors want ex-prison guard to serve 7 years

1. Ethics Complaint Exposes Ties Between Maui Councilmembers, Lahaina Charity Fraud, and Lobbyists
2. July Fourth: Freedom should include your choice of doctor
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 27, 2025
4. Maui Police Launch Digital Firearms Registration System
5. The Lahaina Fire is Proof that ‘Performance Based Regulation’ of HECO is a Failure
6. Questions during Senate hearing deftly sidestepped PUC whistleblower’s allegations
7. After 20 Years of Bumbling--Kauaʻi's Embattled Drug Addiction Treatment Center For Youth Is No Longer Empty  
8. Kai Kahele’s OHA Spending Plan Filled With Bizarre Cuts, Changes  
9. Fish Farm Sues State for Crippling its Business
10. Usual Fruitcakes Freak out over Proposed Big Island Plastic Recycling Plant

1. Twenty Years of Nickels
2. Japan buys Gulf Coast oil, Hawaii doesn’t, thanks to 1920 Jones Act
3. Interstate telehealth to boost local medical care
4. Gays Rewrite State Constitution, State History, and Language
5. Legislators make appetizer of state tourism overseers
6. Police Commission: Problem is too much Mayoral Control, not too little
7. Taxpayers Keep Paying For Disgraced City Officials
8. University of Hawaiʻi’s telescope dedicated in 1970 now honored for enduring impact on space exploration
9. Hawaii Got the Slowdown It Asked For. Now It's Running Scared.
10. Pinata: Eco Groups Start Grabbing for Green Fee Money
11. REMEMBER?  Tulsi Gabbard was once Hawaii’s Most Popular Politician

1. ​UH to tear down 3rd Perfectly Good Maunakea Telescope
2. Should Tulsi Beware India’s Spies?
3. No Surprise: BLNR Rejects Another Army EIS
4. Public Utilities Commission approves whopping 18.1% rate increase for Young Brothers
5. Puna Geothermal Venture to start ‘Repower Project’ to boost production, lower prices
6. Senate GOP adds SNAP waivers for Hawaii in new megabill text—if State can reduce 20% Error Rate
7. How 13 teenagers and some California lawyers rule Hawai’i
8. Hawai‘i interstate telehealth to solve doctor shortage
9. Minimizing Utility Rates Starts With That Goal
10. Let’s Not Confuse Lobbying With Influence-Peddling
11. Another Delay in Kalua Murder Case

1. Moszkowicz will not seek Honolulu Chief Position
2. OHA Withdraws Maunakea Litigation
3. Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???
4. Lahaina Meth Gang Behind ‘Out of Control’ Debate over Vacation Rentals
5. Maui Council set to begin deliberations on short-term rental phase-out bill
6. DPP sorts through thousands of illegal rental notices, collecting only 2% of $90M in vacation rental fines
7. FEMA housing units bring wildfire survivors back to Lahaina
8. Tragically, Stadium project funding won’t be lost over delay
9. Astronomers concerned by federal cuts
10. Government Schools: Sen. Mazie Hirono teaches us a lesson—but not the one she intended
11. Teachers say retaliation reason for job nonrenewal at Laupāhoehoe Community Public Charter School
12. Hawai'i 'Blue' Fee: What does it take to actually get the State to do its job?
13. HPD officer vacancies at 461 with twice as many retirement eligible than incoming
14. Makaha Police Shooting Caused by use of probation instead of incarceration
15. Hawaii County Police Bust Rare Meth Lab
16. Court for homeless meth-heads now permanent
17. Tulsi Gabbard in Trump’s ‘Line of Fire’

1. Inflexible policies continue to hinder Lahaina wildfire recovery
2. HTA Hearing Uncovers an Old Story: The State Still Doesn’t Pay on Time
3. Forgery, Fraud and Theft: Former Top Honolulu Attorney Charged with 22 Felony Counts
4. 'Self-Certification' to Bypass DPP Delays
5. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
6. CNHA Erodes Public Trust in Tourism Management
7. Legal fees for criminal former city officials total in the six figures
8. HPD Chief: Officers Shot Man In Mākaha After He Rammed Their Police Car
9. HPD seizes gambling paraphernalia from illegal game room

1. FULL TEXT: Whistleblower Exposes PUC Parties with HECO Execs--“We are setting ourselves up for the largest cost increase to consumers in history"
2. Feds Rule on Campaign Spending Complaint Four Days after Hawaii Republican Convention tosses out Crazies
3. Former CEO of Guam Helicopter Company Sentenced to 405 Months in Federal Prison for Criminal Aviation Violations
4. Green Adds One More Bill to 'Intent-to-Veto' List
5. Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
6. FAIL: State extends deadline for Aloha Stadium agreement (again)
7. East Maui Water: Usual Suspects grift for control so they can force you to leave island
8. School Choice Works Wonders: How Hawaiʻi's School Transfer System Allows Parents to Rescue Their Kids from Bad Schools
9. Governor Says He May Veto Bill To Reduce Judges' Pensions
10. Maui zoning code must serve residents
11. Hawai‘i County sets cell tower regulations, despite outcry
12. Honolulu Prosecutor: 2023 HPD Fatal Shooting In Pearl City Was Justified
13. City of Honolulu hit with negligence lawsuit over crash at erased crosswalk
14. Penn asks judge for ‘identity verification’ of his mother

1. Lahaina fire rebuild will be complete in 2038 at current pace
2. Bills, Backers, and Blocs: A Data-Driven Look at Lobbying in Hawai‘i
3. Hawaii 2nd-Healthiest State
4. Amended fuel contract expected to save Oahu households nearly $3 a month on electric bills
5. Study: 60,000 Oahu property tax bills artificially inflated, due out in July
6. Vote on Maui vacation rentals could come July 2
7. The Lesson of the Maui Fires: Prioritize Recovery Before the Disaster
8. Mayor expected to file revised $5B city budget today
9. Daily Violence At State Hospital Triggers Workplace Safety Complaint
10. Governor calls for HTA board resignations while lawmakers grill its leaders
11. A Roadmap to Revive Hawai‘i’s Economy and Future
12. House and Senate Allowances: Travel to LA for Movie Premier
13. End of an era: Alexander & Baldwin transfers full ownership of East Maui Irrigation to Mahi Pono
14. PUC to Consider: Should deadbeats get more free Electricity?
15. Trial begins over proposed Kauai hotel project on alleged anthrax site