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• Chronic beach loss, infrastructure risks loom as parts of Hawaii sink

  21-04-2025 12:06 via staradvertiser.com
  Fronting the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki, a narrow concrete boardwalk stretches across what was once a sandy shoreline at Kawehewehe — one of four ancient Hawaiian healing sites in the area. Known as the Halekulani Boardwalk, the path connects beachgoers between the Halekulani and Outrigger hotels.
  
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• Honolulu Council advances bill to offset sewer fee hike

  15-05-2025 12:06 via staradvertiser.com
  
  Honolulu City Council legislation to defray costs associated with the city’s planned 10-year, 115% sewer fee rate hike slated to start this summer has advanced on the first of three readings.
  
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• Housing affordability continues to elude many in Hawaii

  15-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  Housing affordability mainly eroded in Hawaii last year, according to a study that also revealed a sliver of improvement for one aspect of the state’s residential real estate market.
  
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• Guatemalan national faces deportation after DUI arrest

  15-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  A Guatemalan national illegally in the U.S. since 2016 likely will be deported after he was arrested for a second time in January for drunk driving in Kona without a license or insurance.
  
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• 4 rescued Hawaiian monk seals returned to the wild, NOAA says

  15-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Four rehabilitated Hawaiian monk seals have been returnedto the wild, according to NOAA Fisheries.
  
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• Army, allies ponder Pacific role

  14-05-2025 12:06 via staradvertiser.com
  
  The Association of the United States Army’s annual Land Power in the Pacific Conference — better known as LANPAC — kicked off Tuesday at the Sheraton Waikiki. This year the conference, which brings together armies from across the Pacific and beyond, has attracted participants from a record 32 countries, including 16 national chiefs of army.
  
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• Video surveillance at public parks under review

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  Overt video monitoring at city-owned parks prone to high crime is envisioned under a new Honolulu City Council resolution.
  
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• Tech View: Password alternatives provide better security

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  Microsoft’s recent announcement that it was eliminating passwords sent ripples among computer users around the world. How can one safely secure their critical online accounts without a password? Well, not to state the obvious, but the old username/password pair is not exactly the greatest method to secure access to an account.
  
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• Mexican national to be removed after Hilo drunken driving arrest

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  A 35-year-old Mexican national who paid a smuggler $2,500 in 2011 to get back into the U.S. after being deported was sentenced for an immigration law violation Tuesday following a December arrest on Hawaii island for driving drunk without a license.
  
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• Kokua Line: Why does H-3 still have metal plates?

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  Question: The metal plates on H-3 are still in place and have not been removed. It is so distressing to receive good news of a repair only for it not to happen!
  
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• Hawaii braces for Energy Star’s demise

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Hawaii households, with higher electricity rates than the rest of the nation, could benefit from any help available to keep those bills down.
  
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• EPA orders closure of 5 illegal cesspools on Kauai, Big Isle

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued more than $231,000 in fines and ordered the closure of five large-capacity cesspools on Kauai and Hawaiiisland.
  
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• Bail is denied in attempted murder case

  14-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  
  Oahu Circuit Judge Paul Wong denied bail Tuesday for Maui anesthesiologist Gerhardt Konig, who is charged with the attempted murder of his wife, Arielle Konig, on an Oahu hiking trail March 24.
  
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• On the Move: Elizabeth Yee

  14-05-2025 12:04 via staradvertiser.com
  Punahou School has named Elizabeth Yee to its board of trustees effective July 1. Yee is a 1994 graduate with more than 15 years’ experience in public and infrastructure finance, currently as executive vice president of programs at The Rockefeller Foundation. She also serves on the board of Sustainable Energy for All and the advisory boards for Co-Impact’s Foundational Fund and Gender Fund, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
  
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• Police, state support legislation to monitor parts for ghost guns

  13-05-2025 12:06 via staradvertiser.com
  Honolulu police and state law enforcement officials are hoping a proposed piece of federal legislation will help stop the proliferation of untraceable, homemade firearms in Hawaii.
  
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• Legislation could help farms provide more fresh produce for school meals

  13-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Small Hawaii farms would see greater opportunity to provide fresh produce to island school children under a bill that the Legislature sent to Gov. Josh Green.
  
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• Kokua Line: Is 1 phone enough for 2 Social Security online accounts?

  13-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Question: Regarding Social Security, my husband and I don’t have the online accounts they keep talking about. We share a single smart phone. We don’t have a landline. Are we going to be able to do this? I don’t want to buy a second cell phone.
  
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• It was crunch time again at the Legislature

  13-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Within a split-second of a Friday evening deadline about two weeks ago, state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole announced in a legislative conference room, “We have a bill. Gotta be the last one.”
  
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• Hawaii lawmakers seek to help farms provide more fresh produce for school meals

  13-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Small Hawaii farms would see greater opportunity to provide fresh produce to island school children under a bill that the Legislature sent to Gov. Josh Green.
  
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• DPP combats coconut rhinoceros beetles in urban Honolulu

  13-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Damage linked to the palm tree-killing coconut rhinoceros beetle has become more obvious in urban Hono­lulu, according to city officials.
  
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• Bankoh employees graduate from Chaminade University tuition-free

  13-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Two Bank of Hawaii employees, whose tuition is fully covered by the bank’s College Assistance Program, received their diplomasMay 3 from ChaminadeUniversity.
  
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• On the Move: Kerry Kuhl

  13-05-2025 12:04 via staradvertiser.com
  The Kahala Hotel &Resort has named Kerry Kuhl director of sales. Kuhl previously served as senior sales manager at the Prince Hotel Maui and Stouffer Wailea, now known as Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort. Kuhl rejoins the hotel with more than30 years’ experience in the hospitalityindustry, where she previously served as director of national accounts for The Kahala from 2014 to 2018. She began her career at Maui Marriott and became its first remote sales manager in 1990 while based in Califo
  
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• State pushing speed cam expansion despite failed bill

  12-05-2025 12:06 via staradvertiser.com
  The state Department of Transportation intends to use existing revenue streams to dramatically scale up an automatedcamera system to ticket drivers who speed or run red lights — even though a bill proposed by state lawmakers to expand the system stalled out.
  
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• Hawaii DOT pushing speed cam expansion despite failed bill

  12-05-2025 12:06 via staradvertiser.com
  The state Department of Transportation intends to use existing revenue streams to dramatically scale up an automatedcamera system to ticket drivers who speed or run red lights — even though a bill proposed by state lawmakers to expand the system stalled out.
  
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• Queen’s, Kapi‘olani seek labor board review

  12-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  The Hawaii Nurses’ Association is at an impasse with The Queen’s Medical Center since the employer filed an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board — a closely watched move that could provide insight into relations between unions and employers under the Trump administration.
  
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• Nearly 460 volunteers take part in cleanups across Oahu

  12-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Volunteers removed about 30 tons of trash during cleanups across Oahu that were organized by the Department of Facility Maintenance Storm Water Quality Division for Earth Month.
  
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• Maui housing project receives largest wave of wildfire survivors to date

  12-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  The largest wave of displaced Maui fire survivors, who are losing their temporary hotel housing this month, will move into Ka La‘i Ola, a modular housing project mauka of the Lahaina Civic Center designed specifically for survivors who are ineligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance.
  
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• Maui community receives largest wave of wildfire survivors to date

  12-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  The largest wave of displaced Maui fire survivors, who are losing their temporary hotel housing this month, will move into Ka La‘i Ola, a modular housing project mauka of the Lahaina Civic Center designed specifically for survivors who are ineligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance.
  
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• Lifeguard honored for ‘courage and skill’

  12-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  Waianae High School junior Noa “Bubba” Pu‘u, son of lifeguard and waterman Mel Pu‘u and grandson of renowned surfer Buffalo Keaulana, took home the Duke Lifesaver Award on Wednesday night, continuing his family’s legacy in and out of the ocean.
  
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• City Council requests to restore Sand Island’s Native name

  12-05-2025 12:05 via staradvertiser.com
  City lawmakers are leading the push to return Sand Island’s name to its Native Hawaiian name Mauliola, which means “breath of life” or “power of healing.”
  
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