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Green appoints Kanaka‘ole acting director of DLNR
Published: December 30, 2025 10:05
Gov. Josh Green announced Monday Deputy Director Ryan Kanaka‘ole will serve as acting chair and director of Department of Land and Natural Resources, effective immediately, while Chair Dawn Chang is out on medical leave.
Hawaii lawmakers to confront housing affordability, tourism volatility in 2026
Published: December 29, 2025 10:05
Hawaii’s housing crisis is often described in numbers, but for state Sen. Stanley Chang, it’s personal.
Fireworks go quiet in a Salt Lake neighborhood nearly a year after a blast there killed six people
Published: December 27, 2025 10:05
The blast site on Keaka Drive looks almost ordinary again.
Congress pushes VA to help COFA veterans
Published: December 27, 2025 10:05
U.S. military veterans from island nations are a step closer to receiving benefits they’ve earned in their own communities.
Fireworks, permits, available starting today
Published: December 26, 2025 10:05
The Hawaii Fire Department announces that permits for firecrackers will be available for purchase beginning today at the following vendor locations for the upcoming New Year’s celebration.
Hawaii’s ‘green fee’ clears legal hurdle
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/12/26/hawaii-news/hawaiis-green-fee-clears-legal-hurdle/
Published: December 26, 2025 10:05
Hawaii’s so-called green fee is set to take effect as scheduled Jan. 1 after a federal judge dismissed most of the cruise industry’s legal challenge to Act 96 and denied its request to block implementation.
Conservationists alarmed over proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act
Published: December 26, 2025 10:05
Proposed changes by the Trump administration to the federal Endangered Species Act are raising alarm among conservationists working to save Hawaii’s plants and animals.
Hawaii’s baby boomers struggle with housing, food and health risks
Published: December 25, 2025 10:05
Baby boomers in Hawaii were born between 1946 and 1964 — the year after World War II ended, through the Korean War and as Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
Police seek leads on ‘armed and dangerous’ Ocean View man
Published: December 25, 2025 10:05
Police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a 42-year-old Ocean View man they described as “armed and dangerous.”
Kona man indicted for alleged 2009 sex assault
Published: December 24, 2025 10:05
A 34-year-old Kailua-Kona man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Kona more than 16 years ago.
Mental exam ordered for Hawaiian Beaches standoff suspect
Published: December 24, 2025 10:05
A 40-year-old Pahoa man who allegedly threatened to burn down the Hawaiian Beaches home of a 61-year-old woman and her 91-year-old mother with Molotov cocktails will receive a court-ordered mental examination.
Gov. Josh Green’s $10B budget responds to federal cutbacks
Published: December 24, 2025 10:05
Gov. Josh Green has proposed a $10.8 billion state budget that would help the state respond to on-going cuts in federal funding for Hawaii while continuing to focus on affordable housing, climate infrastructure, health care and education.
Gen X is squeezed, caring for generations before and after
Published: December 24, 2025 10:05
On weekends, Raphael Bacani, 51, packs silken tofu and brown‑sugar syrup into his car and heads to the Waipahu, Oahu, farmers market to sell taho, the Filipino street food that’s one of two side businesses he and his wife run to help cover the bills.
Police identify remains of Volcano man who went missing in 2015
Published: December 24, 2025 10:05
Police detectives have identified the remains of man reported missing in December 2015 as 50-year-old Eddie Steve Seenarine of Volcano.
Police: Ocean View bust nets $1.4 million in seized drugs
Published: December 24, 2025 10:05
Police are investigating what they called a large-scale marijuana growing operation in Ocean View.
Pay hike for county managers
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/12/23/hawaii-news/pay-hike-for-county-managers/
Published: December 23, 2025 10:05
In its final meeting of the year Monday in Hilo, the Hawaii County Salary Commission approved a 15.29% pay raise for the county’s top officials.
Hawaii’s Millennials juggle unaffordable housing, other economic obstacles
Published: December 23, 2025 10:05
Corey Strickland spends his days shuttling passengers, spinning music sets and working a third job on Oahu to keep up with Hawaii’s high cost of living.
U.S. vetting proposal threatens Hawaii’s tourism economy
Published: December 23, 2025 10:05
Hawaii tourism officials are raising alarms that a new federal proposal requiring millions of foreign visitors to disclose their social media handles could further depress international arrivals — and potentially undermine the benefits of a major national…