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Federal agents have arrested more than 100 people in Hawaii so far this year for alleged violations of immigration law, but information on exactly how many over 100, where they were arrested and for what was not made public. Read more
Veterans and community members gathered across the islands Monday to remember fallen service members in Memorial Day commemoration events. Read more
Three years since surveys began, the University of Hawaii has found that the state’s numerous health care challenges continue to grow, especially for those living in poverty. Read more
The wife of a Maui doctor who allegedly tried to kill her March 24 on an Oahu hiking trail agreed Friday to have a temporary restraining order filed in Maui Family Court dismissed. Read more
Question: To vote in Honolulu’s neighborhood board elections, the voter goes to a website, inputs a unique password and PIN they received in the mail, makes their selections and submits their online ballot. Does this system ensure voter privacy, so that no one knows who a specific voter voted for? Read more
Vast data exists on conditions of Hawaii’s economy, but the state is about to lose a powerful human base of economic knowledge benefiting local consumers, businesses and government. Read more
Mayor Rick Blangiardi administration’s proposed 10-year, 115% sewer fee rate increase that’s expected to begin this summer remains under Honolulu City Council scrutiny. Read more
Six thousand floating lanterns, each carrying several written commemorations to those who have died, bobbed along the mellow Honolulu waters and turned its turquoise ripples to a shimmering orange for a mere 20 minutes Monday evening. Read more
New state legislation likely will upend the city’s plan to close its current solid-waste landfill in West Oahu and replace it with one near Wahiawa, on active pineapple fields above Central Oahu’s freshwater aquifer. Read more
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The Malama Ohana Working Group released a report in December, concluding that, “There are good people doing difficult work throughout the system, but altogether, the system is failing.” Read more
Patrick Hart studies birds so intently on Hawaii island, he’s nearly becoming one. Read more
Forty-five thousand people are expected to attend the 27th annual Shinnyo Lantern Floating Hawaii, the nation’s largest annual Memorial Day event, which will return to the shoreline of Ala Moana Beach today, this year offering a new military lantern pickup line to expand participation. Read more
Hawaii continues to rank among the nation’s top states for low unemployment. Read more
Start with Oahu Cemetery in lower Nuuanu Valley, a final resting place for Hawaii residents for almost 200 years. Add a substantial bento-style dinner and thoroughly researched soliloquies by five talented actors, and you have “Cemetery Pupu Theatre,” an outreach program created and produced by the Hawaiian Mission Houses Museum that is presented each June on-site at the cemetery. Read more
Each week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser publishes Oahu statistics for marriage licenses and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health. Read more
I had the misfortune to injure myself at the height of COVID-19 and spend three months in a senior nursing facility for rehabilitation. Read more
Question: I noticed the enrollment capacity for Honolulu Summer Fun is down this year, with the Makiki District Park only initially having 65 total spaces. Read more
Longtime Honolulu Advertiser reporter, Capitol bureau chief, city editor and editorial page editor Jerry Burris died Wednesday in his sleep at his home in Lanikai. He was 81. Read more
The island of Molokai is perhaps the most rural of all of the main Hawaiian isles, with a population of just about 7,400 on about 260 square miles of land. Read more
Astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory analyzed the vibrations of a star to learn more about its interior, almost as if listening to the star’s music. Read more
Health care professionals can get up to $50,000 a year of debt relief for each of the two years they commit to working in the islands. Read more
