The state Attorney General’s Office can subpoena the financial records of a nonprofit organization that raises money to oppose the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea, a Circuit Court judge ruled Friday. Read more
Gov. David Ige’s leadership failure in the Mauna Kea telescope standoff becomes more confounding by the week. Read more
The Thirty Meter Telescope’s partner in India wants to ditch Hawaii and build the next-generation telescope at the project’s backup site in the Canary Islands, a newspaper in India reported. Read more
About 350 activists joined in protocols of hula, chant and prayer that began at 8 a.m. today at the Capitol, imitating the daily ceremony and dance of the Mauna Kea protests Read more
Gov. David Ige on Monday signed into law a controversial set of administrative rules designed to offer a new layer of protection for land and natural resources managed by the University of Hawaii on Mauna Kea. Read more
It took him a while, but Mayor Harry Kim managed to do something few contemporary political leaders in Hawaii have been able to do: He got people to take him at his word. Read more
An event described as the Super Bowl of astronomy kicks off Saturday in Honolulu as thousands of scientists descend on the Hawai‘i Convention Center. Read more
An event described as the Super Bowl of astronomy kicks off Saturday in Honolulu as thousands of scientists descend on the Hawai‘i Convention Center. Read more
As 2020 dawns on Mauna Kea, the fate of the Thirty Meter Telescope seems less certain now than it did a decade ago when the billion-dollar-plus project was first proposed. Read more
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The Mauna Kea Access Road was finally cleared of tents and protesters Saturday for the first time since mid-July, but the opponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope vowed to shift the focus of their protest campaign to the mainland during a two-month pause in the standoff on the mountain. Read more
Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim has struck a deal with the protesters on Mauna Kea, with Kim pledging there will be no construction activity and no police action on Mauna Kea. Read more
Kim said the road to Mauna Kea, which has been blocked by protesters for six months, will be accessible Saturday. Read more
What is clear is that for certain voters, where a politician stands on TMT may be a deciding issue — but more important will be if the leaders from TMT are able to translate the protests into a solidifying cause, and that has not yet happened. Read more
The day after Christmas, not ordinarily an ominous occasion, likely will be one this year. Dec. 26, said Gov. David Ige, is set as the deadline for clearing the Mauna Kea Access Road. Read more
Demonstrators have until Dec. 26 to clear the road, or they could face arrests, says an official from DLNR. Read more
Lino Kamakau, branch chief of the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Conservation and Resource Management, set the new deadline in a briefing for about 75 protesters at the camp at midday today. Read more
Frustration with the standoff on Mauna Kea and the high cost of policing the protests boiled over Wednesday as the Hawaii County Council voted 9-0 to reject an agreement that would have obligated county police to respond to the protests for up to five more years. Read more
Frustration with the standoff on Mauna Kea and the high cost of policing the protests boiled over today as the Hawaii County Council voted 9-0 to reject an agreement that would have required the state to pick up the tab for county police overtime and other protest-related costs. Read more
More money to deal with the ongoing protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope has been tucked away in the proposed new budgets of various state departments, but Gov. David Ige and his staff aren’t saying exactly how much. Read more
The Thirty Meter Telescope occupation is finally coming to an end. Read more
