The Friends of Heeia State Park, the nonprofit group that has managed park oversight for nearly three decades, is protesting the results of a bid process put into motion by the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Land Board, which would turn over control of the… [»Read]
Amid official preparations for a 50th anniversary of statehood celebration–including the lei-bedecked arrival of the USS Hawaii, a $2.5 billion nuclear submarine billed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin as “7,700 tons of aloha”–a counter movement is offering… [»Read]
As City officials continue to move toward Mayor Mufi Hannemann’s plan to tear down the 82-year-old Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial and build a beach on the site, the University of Hawaii is backing a proposal for the Waikiki Aquarium to expand its facilities into… [»Read]
Having spent 35 years telling various real-estate developers, cruise ships and other strangers bearing gifts to get lost, Molokai now finds itself the most eligible place in Hawaii–if not the country–for start-from-scratch sustainability planning. With no dominant… [»Read]
Hawaii’s swordfish fleet is again riding rough seas, this time whipped up by a new proposal to expand the fishery. The rule change, proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service at the recommendation of the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council (Wespac),… [»Read]
It’s a wonder that the neighborhood board elections took place at all this spring. When the City cut the budget for paper ballots just three weeks before the elections, city officials celebrated it as a forward-thinking move, touting the fact that Honolulu was to be the… [»Read]
Traversed and bounded by some of Honolulu’s busiest thoroughfares, including Kapiolani Boulevard, King and Beretania Streets and University Avenue, Moiliili is one of Oahu’s most tightly packed areas, with an average density more than five times the city’s… [»Read]
The local nonprofit Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii, or B.E.A.C.H. as it’s better known, is collecting data for a landmark study on the extent to which our waters are choked with plastic, and what it means for the overall health of the oceans. Since September… [»Read]
As the person who tends the heiau that line Wailua bay and river, Jim Alalem has a special sense about the region’s cultural value. “It’s the most sacred area on Kauai,” he said. “No place else on Kauai but there were kings born. That’s where the first… [»Read]
A Punahou education and childhood in Kahala didn’t prevent Connie Geisler from becoming homeless. But thanks to help from places like the Institute of Human Services and downtown’s River of Life Mission, Geisler was able to fight her drug addiction and get back on… [»Read]
It’s a perfect summery Friday morning at Ala Moana Beach Park, just past 7am, and there are dozens of swimmers working their way through the water in elegant backstrokes, perfect-form freestyles and methodical breaststrokes. Among them are surfers paddling in and out… [»Read]
For three days in June nearly 100 Oahu high school students gathered in Kahana Valley to become part of growing movement in Hawaii and throughout the world. But instead of protesting the WTO or the war in Iraq, these teens were taking on Hawaii’s dependence on… [»Read]
I have driven the future, and it works. In this case, the future takes the form a tiny electric sports car with phenomenal acceleration that uses a third of the energy of an equivalent sports car. If you have solar panels at your home connected to a bank of batteries, you… [»Read]
It’s already happened to thousands of small towns across the country: A highway bypass is built around a town, ostensibly to speed up traffic. The property where the bypass diverges from the old highway suddenly becomes prime commercial real estate. Shopping centers are… [»Read]
When the post-WWII political history of Hawaii is cemented, former Lt. Gov. Tom Gill is a figure whose story should be remembered, retold and revered. Gill, who died last week, played a key role in the “Democratic revolution” of 1954, which shifted the Islands’… [»Read]
