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Sixty-pound cinder blocks placed in the ocean for a Hawaii Island canoe regatta last weekend caused damage to approximately 50 to 60 coral colonies in Kailua Bay, according to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. Star-Advertiser.ĭLNR: 50 to 60 coral colonies damaged by cinder blocks used for canoe regatta. A public meeting to address illegal game rooms and cockfighting on Oahu’s west side on Wednesday was marked by emotional public input, allegations of public corruption and pleas to end the proliferation of guns in the community. Public outcry over crime heard in Maili meeting. State Transportation Director Ed Sniffen said his agency got reports of the bugs in one of the E Gates in Terminal 2 on Monday. Deep cleaning is underway at several Honolulu airport gates after bed bugs were reported. Star-Advertiser.īed bugs at Honolulu’s airport trigger deep cleaning, gate closures. The Navy announced Wednesday it wants to dismantle the pipelines connecting the massive fuel tanks at its underground Red Hill facility to Pearl Harbor. Navy wants to remove 3 pipelines at Red Hill fuel facility.

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Rail trains are running, cracked “hammerhead” station supports are fixed and reinforced and passenger service is scheduled to begin June 30, including a four-hour window on that Friday when anyone can ride and experience the country’s first fully automated rail system for free. Oahu rail system is ‘ready to go’ June 30. Former Honolulu attorney Donna Leong, former Honolulu Police Commission chair Max Sword and former managing director Roy Amemiya are accused of setting up ex-police chief Louis Kealoha’s $250,000 severance agreement without Honolulu City Council approval and trying to keep the deal quiet. On Wednesday, lawyers for three former Honolulu officials tried to convince the judge the federal conspiracy charges against their clients should be dismissed. KITV4.Īrguments To Dismiss Honolulu Conspiracy Case Met With Skepticism. Thursday and continue until an agreement between both parties is reached. Hawaii Teamsters and Allied Workers, Local 996, which represents 217 members across the state, said in a letter that a strike would begin at 12:01 a.m. Teamsters to strike Hawaii Gas over contract impasse. If the state were to expand it so that 3,000 cesspools could be upgraded each year, it would cost Hawaii $61 million every year for the next 27 years - or a total of more than $1.6 Billion for cesspool conversions. The current pilot program only had $5 million available to homeowners. KHON2.Ĭurrent cesspool conversion program still not enough to wipe out waste problem.
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Eighty-six public schools across the state will offer free meals during part of the summer to children ages 18 years and younger, regardless of their public school enrollment status, the state Department of Education has announced. KITV4.įree summer meals for keiki offered at 86 public schools. A state senator is calling for an audit of the Hawaii State Film Office in a feud over whether the office is doing enough to promote the hiring of local workers in film and television productions. Lawmaker calls for audit of Hawaii film office amid local hiring feud. State officials have grown increasingly concerned about the facilities, with 89 investigations already underway. Hawaii Is Clamping Down On Unlicensed Care Homes. Donovan Dela Cruz from mounting a secretive, 11th-hour campaign to get rid of Syrmos, a University of Hawaii vice president who has openly questioned a project in Dela Cruz’s district. But that didn’t stop a clique of lawmakers led by Sen. Vassilis Syrmos’ position as a director of the quasi-independent Hawaii Technology Development Corp. How A Few Hawaii Senators Conspired To Get Rid Of An Agency Board Member Who Was In The Way. Neil Abercrombie among three people appointed to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents is seen by observers as bearing potential to cause at least some shift in the measured culture of the board, and in the university’s fractured relationship with some state senators.

Abercrombie among interim UH regent appointees.
