Showing posts with label hawaii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hawaii. Show all posts
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Power largely restored after Kauai suffered an island-wide outage last night

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The best update was when they had to report the outage took the outage map itself offline:
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Vivid article by Susan Orlean about young female surfers on Maui

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The original article is from 1998: Before women were encouraged to surf, the girls in Hana must have been unbelievably bored ... One aftern...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Two killed and three others shot at a cockfight on Oahu

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AP : Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up illegal gambling enforcement after one of the most serious shootings in state history called att...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

"The new Aloha Stadium has hit another delay and will likely not be ready until the 2028 football season"

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" It was only last month when the governor announced that the stadium would be delayed until 2027."
Thursday, April 13, 2023

A Hawaiian state representative reportedly "conspired with midwife activists" to have her colleagues arrested for DUI after they rejected her "controversial midwifery bill"

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Civil Beat : [She reportedly] took pictures of members walking to their cars and texted an acquaintance in law enforcement and asked them to...
Friday, February 10, 2023

The "wall" of green lasers seen in Hawaii in January was reportedly a scanning laser from a Chinese satellite

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Vice : Last month, a camera from a telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i's tallest mountain, captured something eerie: a wall of green las...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Interior camera captured the moment a massive boulder smashed through a Honolulu home

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(Video has audio.) (The area is  north of Diamond Head .)   KITV : According to the Honolulu Police Department, the boulder appeared...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Videos of wild coastal flooding in Hawaii from Tropical Cyclone Darby

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Sunday, June 12, 2022

Group calling itself the "Occupied Forces Hawaii Army" ordered to leave the land it's occupying on Oahu

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Civil Beat : Instead of preparing to leave, the group has been welcoming reinforcements consisting of additional uniformed members of Occupi...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Larry Ellison "is making his Hawaiian island more hospitable to the super-rich and pushing out families that have been there for generations"

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Long article at Bloomberg about life on Lanai: Lanai has largely been in private hands since the 19th century, but Ellison, with a net wort...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

In his first news conference, Honolulu's new police chief described his adult son’s arrest for felony assault

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For an alleged assault at Ala Moana park .
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Two murder suspects on the run after Honolulu police officers gave them a courtesy transport from the scene

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HawaiiNewsNow : Honolulu police officers dropped two men now suspected in a gruesome murder off in Waikiki on Monday as an investigation was...
Friday, December 10, 2021

"Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii"

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 "All told, the financial penalty for Monsanto  totals $22.2 million ."  The name of the product in question was " Forfeit 28...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

Most of the possibly polluted Oahu water samples sent for testing were damaged in transit and couldn't be tested

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Civil Beat : Test results by the Hawaii Department of Health are providing few answers about the contamination of the Navy’s drinking water ...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

In Hawaii, one acre lots start at $7.5 million, with property taxes of only $200 per year

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The NY Times looks at homes in Hawaii getting bought up sight unseen: At the private Hokuli’a community, one-acre lots start at $7.5 millio...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

For the antisemitic anti-vaxxers on Oahu, it's "fun, like a party"

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AP : Since Hawaii announced a mandate earlier this month that state and county workers would have to show proof of vaccination or face weekl...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

The wheels on Oahu's new trains are too narrow for the tracks that have been laid

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If the wheels are replaced with thicker ones, then the train cars will become too heavy for the tracks. So, the tracks could be replaced in...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

U.S. Navy sailor dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after long standoff at Oahu's Kahala Hotel

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From several hours ago : Shortly after the suspect allegedly fired the first shot, police were clearing the beach and beachside eateries at ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

"Five current and former Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting employees are facing federal charges for allegedly accepting bribes"

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" The alleged corruption has been going on for years, according to the indictments."
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Hawaii’s beaches are disappearing because the wealthy keep building seawalls to protect their homes

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Pro Publica : Hawaii’s beaches are owned by the public, and the government is required to preserve them. So years ago, officials adopted a “...