... severe restrictions on homebuilding have resulted in too few homes and some of the nation’s highest housing prices ....

... The entire world is anxiously awaiting whether Biden decides to stay in the 2024 presidential race ....

... Recently, Governor Green, without much fanfare, signed into law a number of bills that had been proposed by the Department of Taxation ....

... we witnessed and listened to a frail and seemingly muddled President Biden agonizingly take us to the brink of electoral wipeout ....

... the goal is to remove all references to Captain Cook from Hawaii ....

... bill motivated by charges against a man who had no driver’s license and 164 traffic citations when he was arrested in the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old McKinley High School student ....

"... a primary asset in NASA’s planetary defense system ...."

... Former college in Waikiki will soon house 120 homeless families as part of city program ....

... The new lease will go into effect July 6, 2024, at which time airfield operations will continue normal operations, including uninterrupted water service to the tenants ....

... Most eligible families will get SUN Bucks automatically without the need for an application ....

"... Respondent Coffield explained that he was so distressed by Chair Tam’s text message and email that he left work, went to a coffee shop, and then drafted and sent the email from the coffee shop. Respondent Coffield did not return to work that day and neglected to take leave ...."

“...This operation required quick action and decisions and DHS is thankful for all involved with the successful location of these 11 children and youth....”

... Customers urged to review bills, take action if they choose not to continue ....

... Grant Program Heading To Hawai‘i To Build More Housing ....

... invoices revealed the mishandling of a $900 fee ....

... prohibiting gifts to City officers and employees valued at more than $50 ....

... Residents should prepare for extended outages that could last several hours to days by having emergency supplies such as food, water, and medications ....

... industries with significant growth potential that are currently facing obstacles such as inadequate infrastructure, skills shortages, and market and government failures ....

... All site work for the decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) was completed in June 2024  ....

... Kitashima's associates helped him buy, ship, and transport methamphetamine between California, Oregon, and Hawaii ....

... after school Bible clubs must be given equal access ....

... put Horton’s life at risk by ordering the man to rush into traffic at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport to stop a moving vehicle while on foot ....

... a ‘blank check’ to shut down all electronic media ....

... This is the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district is not open ....

... Approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will train and operate in and around the Hawaiian Islands ....

... NVRA requires statewide voter rolls to be accessible to the general public ....

... but no immunity for unofficial acts ....

... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....

... The positions and appointees are listed below; House and Senate appointees also are included ....

... if Honolulu were to revise upward all the other development standards as well — the minimum setbacks, the height limits, the maximum lot coverage and minimum lot widths and depths — the number of newly legal units could skyrocket ....

... Intent to Veto: HB 1800, which is the state’s budget bill, and HB 40, which is the bill that puts $300 million into our rainy day fund and $135 million into the pension accumulation fund .... 

... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....

... This year our freedoms were expanded with the passage by our state lawmakers of important legislation. Those expansions covered taxes, housing and healthcare ....

... as of Monday, July 1, 2024, Bikeshare Hawaiʻi has turned over its oversight role of the Biki bikeshare system to DTS ....

... The remade Lahaina will be a tourist-oriented animation of the pre-plantation era when the economy was based on slaughtering lots of whales ....

“HPD is taking this seriously and attempting to determine whether Branco may have indeed been able to contact Kalua while in jail.”

"...There's going to be some pain...."

... Sinaloa and its rival, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG — run drug pipelines through California and Nevada to flood Oahu with meth and other drugs, including fentanyl ....

... The settlement provides benchmarks for a greenhouse gas reduction plan that will be overseen and enforced by a court through 2045 ....

...Gorsuch said “a handful of federal judges” couldn’t “begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom of the American people” in deciding policy solutions for homelessness....

... those standards only apply where there's a takings claim present. And there's no takings claims here ....

... Rebecca A. Copeland, Brian A. Costa, Dyan M. Medeiros, and Steven R. Nichols to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit .... 

... tourist count down 4.8%, spending down 4.0% ....

... the Hawaii Supreme Court hears oral arguments ....

... Seventeen plaintiffs are asking for $7 million ....

... Advocates to keep the stairs told the court that demolishing them will threaten the state's official mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat. ....

... After a federal court struck down the ban, the Hawaii Legislature approved an amendment to the ban that prohibits only the concealed carry of bladed weapons ....

... Cowden had made the entire incident about herself ....

... The county cannot ignore the constitutional rights of Maui property owners in its race to address its housing problems ....

... virtually all local economists realize the main cause of Hawaii’s housing crisis is the state’s extremely high number of land-use and other housing-related regulations that have hindered homebuilding ....