When Jesse Souki leaves the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation on Wednesday, he’ll be the latest in a string of about a dozen prominent personnel to leave a rail agency that’s grappling with vacancies and high turnover. Read more
Oahu’s Handi-Van fleet will soon include smaller vehicles to pick up disabled customers in some of the island’s hardest-to-reach locations, local transit officials say. Read more
While some Honolulu rail leaders are encouraged by President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-infrastructure rhetoric, others are wary of how the new administration might react to a transit project that’s over budget, behind schedule and technically in breach of its federal funding deal. Read more
The Honolulu City Council is moving ahead with a measure supporting construction of the full 20-mile rail transit line to Ala Moana, despite the project’s crippling cost overruns and lengthy delays. Read more
The board overseeing construction of Oahu’s rail transit system has selected its new leader, as the financially challenged project continues to face future uncertainty. Read more
A Honolulu City Charter amendment to give the Police Commission greater authority soared to approval with most of the vote counted Tuesday. Read more
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A Honolulu City Charter Amendment to give the Police Commission greater authorities is soaring toward approval, based on initial returns from the state’s Office of Elections. Read more
Rainy, blustery conditions suppressed spectator turnout Monday on the North Shore for the season’s first major swell. Read more
For the second quarter in a row, state tax revenue going toward Honolulu’s financially challenged rail project did not hit the target laid out in an outdated financial plan. Read more
As city and rail leaders prepare to ask state lawmakers for another rail tax extension, one key legislator wants to bring the project’s federal partners to Hawaii to clarify their position on the financially troubled transit project. Read more
Local traffic safety advocates are ramping up a grass-roots effort to provide fluorescent flags for pedestrian use at some of Oahu’s most dangerous crosswalks. Read more
A longtime local construction industry leader will replace Colleen Hana- busa on the board overseeing Oahu’s financially troubled rail project. Read more
Mayor Kirk Caldwell has tapped Glenn Nohara, a longtime local construction industry leader, to replace Colleen Hanabusa on the board overseeing the island’s financially troubled rail project. Read more
As rail’s new interim executive director and CEO, Krishniah Murthy will step into a giant transit project mired in severe cost overruns, schedule delays and an uncertain future. Read more
The agency responsible for overseeing the completion of Oahu’s multi-billion dollar elevated rail transit system has hired a new interim executive director. Read more
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s new interim director, who’s expected to be announced today, will inherit a rail agency that has seen high turnover among managers and board members in the past two years. Read more
Nearly a year after Hale Mauliola’s opening, city leaders who once doubted it would work are calling the transitional housing complex a success — and they aim to expand the model to help address widespread homelessness on Oahu. Read more
Drivers traveling east on the H-1 freeway at night this week will encounter full lane closures between Middle and Liliha streets, and they’ll have to use alternate routes throughKalihi, state transportation officials say. Read more
Some key state and city leaders are voicing support for another tax extension to help fix rail’s latest financial problems, even though the project’s board chairwoman said earlierthis year that state lawmakers likely would reject such a move. Read more
Honolulu rail leaders approved $8.3 million in leftover change orders Thursday — cost increases related to delays and premature starts that hit the project’s first 10 miles. Read more
Mayor Kirk Caldwell and his mayoral challenger, Charles Djou, have traveled very different paths since 2005 to get to the same conclusion: Honolulu’s elevated rail line, both of them now say, must be built to Ala Moana Center. Read more
