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BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Every October, some 2,000 people along with their favorite pets, meet at Ala Moana Beach Park’s Magic Island. The Saturday morning event, run by the Hawaiian Humane Society, is called Petwalk. People bring their dogs, cats, bunny rabbits and even birds, and walk around the beach park. There are some unusual [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle has been noticeably absent from city council hearings. Budget Chair Ann Kobayashi has brought up the issue, particularly when the mayor’s own executive budget is being presented to the council for consideration. “Is the mayor here?” Kobayashi regularly asked at the start of this year’s Spring budget hearings [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - The Honolulu City Council passed bill 37 on the second of three scheduled readings last night after its monthly meeting that included several controversial items. Bill 37 would allow the city to borrow as much as $450 million in commercial paper for its planned $5.3 billion elevated steel on steel rail [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Maunalua Bay, which fronts the Hawaii Kai community, on the pristine south east coast of Oahu, is a gathering place for stand up paddlers, canoe paddlers, kayakers, fisherman and families who want to enjoy the bay’s beauty. The bay, which hosts a city canoe halau for Hui Nalu canoe club and [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - BeNiceBen.com – This is the web site the Pacific Resource Partnership unveiled on Friday in an effort to bring attention to a disagreement between Hawaii’s Senior U.S. Senator, Daniel Inouye, and former Governor turned Honolulu Mayoral Candidate Ben Cayetano. A Friday email from Pacific Resource Partnership’s executive director that unveiled the web [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - State Deputy Attorney General Kevin Takata will formally announce his candidacy for Honolulu Prosecutor at a Sunday news conference. Takata previously served as senior deputy in the prosecutor’s office but left after Keith Kaneshiro was elected to a two-year term in 2010. Kaneshiro, who is seeking re-election, was not immediately available [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY AND MALIA ZIMMERMAN - State officials have declined comment on allegations that two public housing residents have been collecting welfare benefits while running a lucrative illegal lottery business out of their homes. Federal agents and police staged Monday night raids at the apartments of two sisters living in the Palolo Valley Homes [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - Lawmakers knocked off work for the year Thursday, passing an $11 billion budget and a wide variety of legislation including one bill aimed at finally ending the incarceration of more than 1,000 Hawaii prison inmates in Mainland institutions. The Legislature also reached a landmark agreement with the Office of Hawaii [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN AND JIM DOOLEY - On the face of it, Hong Fa is a small grocery store on Maunakea Street in Chinatown. But on Tuesday, May 1, it was one of four Chinatown businesses raided by the FBI, IRS, Homeland Security Investigations and Honolulu Police in an illegal lottery investigation. Earlier, Hawaii Reporter [...]
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