Year: 2025

Tired Of Waiting For Rules On Police Chases, Lawmakers Step In A turf war is brewing between a new police standards board and legislators, who are frustrated with the lack of progress.

March 27, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/tired-of-waiting-for-rules-on-police-chases-lawmakers-step-in/

State Collects Money From Home Builders For New Schools. It’s Never Spent a Dime Lawmakers and housing advocates say the fee should be eliminated because the state hasn’t used the money. DOE says the rules on spending it are too restrictive.

March 27, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/state-collects-money-from-home-builders-for-new-schools-its-never-spent-a-dime/

Hawaiʻi Corruption Investigations FBI Recorded Hawaiʻi Lawmaker Being Given $35,000 Three years after the handoff, the identities of an unnamed man and the lawmaker he paid remain unknown to the public.

March 27, 2025 0

It was the day before the Hawaiʻi legislative session began in 2022, and a man wanted Hawaiʻi Rep. Ty Cullen...

Daniel Kahikina Akaka State Veterans Home opens in Kapolei

March 27, 2025 0

The long-planned Daniel Kahikina Akaka State Veterans Home finally opened its doors Wednesday in Kapolei as the family of its...

Sports

BIIF sports: Wildcats, Bulls and ‘Riders sweep; Pahoa outlasts KSH

March 27, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/03/27/sports/biif-sports-wildcats-bulls-and-riders-sweep-pahoa-outlasts-ksh/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

Eruption has paused……HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 7:55 PM

March 26, 2025 0

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 7:55 PM HST (Thursday, March 27, 2025, 05:55...

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, March 26, 2025

March 26, 2025 0

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:45 AM KILAUEA (VNUM #332010) 19°25'16" N 155°17'13"...

Heroic Golden Retriever Saves Missing Toddler

March 26, 2025 0

Heroic Golden Retriever Saves Missing Toddler A golden retriever named Zoie is being hailed as a hero after helping save...

Lānaʻi Clinic Pushes To Prescribe Drugs As Telehealth Bill Moves Forward The legal battle comes as the Legislature debates a bill that would allow pharmacists on neighbor islands to remotely supervise services at rural medical clinics.

March 26, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/lanai-clinic-fights-for-right-prescribe-drugs/

Digging For Minerals In The Pacific’s Graveyard: The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls The Seabed “The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

March 26, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/digging-for-minerals-in-the-pacifics-graveyard-the-20-trillion-fight-over-who-controls-the-seabed/

Mufi Hannemann’s Events Spark Inquiry Into Freebies From Tourism Agency A state audit has triggered an investigation of whether the HTA board chair’s nonprofits inappropriately received free food and use of state facilities from his own agency.

March 26, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/mufi-hannemanns-events-spark-inquiry-into-freebies-from-tourism-agency/

The Unlikely Odyssey Of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Raised in nobility and imprisoned after the overthrow of the monarchy, Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole had an outsized impact on modern Hawaiʻi.

March 26, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/01/the-unlikely-odyssey-of-prince-jonah-kuhio/

Parker School teacher wins national honor

March 26, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/03/26/features/community-connection/parker-school-teacher-wins-national-honor/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

Sports

Year: 2025

Tired Of Waiting For Rules On Police Chases, Lawmakers Step In A turf war is brewing between a new police standards board and legislators, who are frustrated with the lack of progress.

State Collects Money From Home Builders For New Schools. It’s Never Spent a Dime Lawmakers and housing advocates say the fee should be eliminated because the state hasn’t used the money. DOE says the rules on spending it are too restrictive.

Hawaiʻi Corruption Investigations FBI Recorded Hawaiʻi Lawmaker Being Given $35,000 Three years after the handoff, the identities of an unnamed man and the lawmaker he paid remain unknown to the public.

Daniel Kahikina Akaka State Veterans Home opens in Kapolei

BIIF sports: Wildcats, Bulls and ‘Riders sweep; Pahoa outlasts KSH

Eruption has paused……HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 7:55 PM

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Heroic Golden Retriever Saves Missing Toddler

Lānaʻi Clinic Pushes To Prescribe Drugs As Telehealth Bill Moves Forward The legal battle comes as the Legislature debates a bill that would allow pharmacists on neighbor islands to remotely supervise services at rural medical clinics.

Digging For Minerals In The Pacific’s Graveyard: The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls The Seabed “The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

Mufi Hannemann’s Events Spark Inquiry Into Freebies From Tourism Agency A state audit has triggered an investigation of whether the HTA board chair’s nonprofits inappropriately received free food and use of state facilities from his own agency.

The Unlikely Odyssey Of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Raised in nobility and imprisoned after the overthrow of the monarchy, Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole had an outsized impact on modern Hawaiʻi.

Parker School teacher wins national honor

BIIF: Warriors tie; Hilo and Waiakea sweep

Memorial for Vietnam vets planned for Konawaena

Laupāhoehoe Transfer Station Closed for Improvements Starting April 21

Eruption has resumed

Mayor Alameda Welcomes Plans for Air Ambulance Serving Hawaiʻi Island

APPLICATIONS OPEN: CPB’S WE BY RISING TIDE PROGRAM SUPPORTS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ACROSS HAWAII

Community: 3-25-25 Police Seeking Witnesses to Ocean View Road Incident

Police Investigating Hilo Murder

High Bacteria Count Advisory at Keokea Bay Beach Park

Carlsmith and Kealoha Beach Parks Closed Due to Shark Sighting

Public Invited to Help Shape the Future of Hilo Bay

GOVERNOR GREEN ORDERS FLAGS TO HALF-STAFF IN OBSERVANCE OF PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY STATUS REPORT U.S. Geological Survey

People Usually Get Away With Harming Hawai‘i’s Seals Despite Tourist Case A Seattle visitor was arrested a week after lobbing a rock at an endangered seal on Maui. But cases involving people killing the seals are rarely prosecuted.

Big Island Press Club hosts scholarship dinner

Funds allocated for Waimea emergency center

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