By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's Democratic governor on Thursday signed into law a bill that uses a novel approach to reduce the influence of corporations and hard-to-track "dark money" groups that have been able to spend unlimited amounts on politics ...
By JIM MUSTIAN, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau's Honolulu field office and meetings with local law ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal just off a Maui beach last ...
By JEREMY HAY/Honolulu Civil Beat Honolulu Civil Beat Hawaiʻi will need nearly 60,000 additional housing units by 2050 to meet future demand driven largely by an aging population and to prevent younger residents from getting squeezed out of the housing market. Residents age 65 or older ...
By CHAD BLAIR and BLAZE LOVELL/Honolulu Civil Beat Honolulu Civil Beat Sylvia Luke, the embattled lieutenant governor of Hawaiʻi, said Thursday she will take an indefinite leave of absence without pay. "This decision is not made lightly," she said in a press release. "Serving the people of ...
By BLAZE LOVELL/Honolulu Civil Beat Honolulu Civil Beat An audit underway of the state's tiny home initiative for the homeless, mandated by lawmakers after a Civil Beat investigation uncovered significant flaws in the program's accounting, has found deficiencies that warrant "immediate ...