State and federal officials say that water tested at Hickam Elementary School for potential petroleum contamination is safe after an “unvalidated” test found high levels early this month. Read more
Two years after the Pentagon agreed it would remove fuel from its underground Red Hill fuel storage facility and shut it down, the military task force charged with removing fuel stored in the Navy’s underground Red Hill facility has officially concluded its mission. Read more
In early March the Navy notified the Environmental Protection Agency that it had detected “unvalidated test results” finding high levels of total petroleum |hydrocarbons, or TPH, in water samples taken from an on-base school and a home in the Aliamanu Military Reservation — both of which had their water systems flushed. Read more
In American Samoa, tuna is the lifeblood of the economy. Canned tuna accounts for 95.5% of all exports, and all of that tuna is canned at the StarKist Samoa cannery in Pago Pago. Read more
Meetings have often been contentious, with members of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative and from the community frequently accusing officials of withholding information and dodging questions. Read more
As the military tries to highlight progress on efforts to close the Navy’s underground Red Hill fuel facility, members of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative are accusing the federal government of walking back on its commitments to transparency ahead of a public meeting scheduled for Thursday. Read more
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The Medal of Honor is the highest honor bestowed on military personnel and is personally awarded by the sitting president. Read more
The U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, expressed cautious optimism about the state of relations between the two countries during a webinar hosted Thursday by the East-West Center in Manoa. Read more
The last known Pearl Harbor attack survivor living in Hawaii was laid to rest Thursday alongside his late wife at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe. Read more
After months of work, on Wednesday the military task force charged with removing the fuel from the Navy’s underground Red Hill storage facility announced it had extracted the last of the “accessible residual fuel” from the facility. Read more
The Navy announced this week that it will continue monitoring its Oahu water system, which serves 93,000 people, for the next year after a surge in complaints about water and air quality in homes on the military waterline. Read more
Competition over dwindling fish resources has led to international tensions, and in some cases clashes in places like the South China Sea, once one of the world’s most plentiful fishing grounds that has now been depleted almost to collapse. Read more
The German military is planning a series of deployments to the Pacific this summer, and is looking at possibly setting up a permanent military liaison position in Hawaii at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command as it refines its regional strategy. Read more
The nearly 40-year-old U.S. Coast Guard ship arrived in Hawaii in December after undergoing over a year’s worth of renovations at a Baltimore shipyard. Read more
Behind the scenes, Christine Ahn and Dan Leaf have used their contacts across the worlds of politics, defense and diplomacy to lobby American officials and facilitate back channel talks with North Korean officials. Read more
Just before Christmas, commanders hailed the departure of the Yosemite Trader — a commercial ship carrying the last shipment of “usable” fuel from Red Hill — as it sailed from Pearl Harbor bound for Subic Bay. Read more
During a visit to Hawaii this week, the U.S. ambassadors to Japan and South Korea — who have had very different careers — gave a talk to students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Read more
Last week during a visit to Honolulu, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that as American leaders talk about U.S. strategy in the Pacific, they should have more of those conversations in the Pacific. Read more
Federal officials were absent when members of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative met Thursday at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for an update from the military and the Environmental Protection Agency on ongoing efforts to close the Red Hill fuel storage facility and water testing on the Navy waterline. Read more
Ongoing attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea by Houthi militants from Yemen are causing ripples here in the Pacific. Read more
Eight Hawaii National Guard soldiers will deploy to West Africa in support of Operation Juniper Shield, a long-running counterterrorism mission in the region. Read more
