Department of Justice

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez updated lawmakers on the state's involvement in 27 ongoing lawsuits against the federal government, including cases regarding immigration, employee layoffs, and federal funding freezes and terminations.

Arguments have been made for and against the president's proclamation that lifts a ban on commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. HPR's Mark Ladao has more.

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a Native Hawaiian man convicted of a hate crime against a white man must be re-sentenced, potentially adding years to his prison term. Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in 2023. A jury found that the 2014 assault was a hate crime.

Three years ago, a county housing story published by the monthly newsletter Environment Hawaiʻi caught the eye of federal law enforcement agents. An FBI investigation led to indictments of several Hawaiʻi Island residents.

The Justice Department is suing four states over climate action. The office argued in filings Wednesday that pending lawsuits out of Hawaiʻi and Michigan against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change would infringe on the federal government's authority.

A new executive order from President Donald Trump that's part of his effort to invigorate energy production launches the possibility that his Department of Justice will go to court against state laws aimed at slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels.

Two former Honolulu officials are expected to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in a public corruption probe tied to a $250,000 payout to the now-jailed former police chief Louis Kealoha. A third official has entered a deferred-prosecution agreement.

The cause of death for a convicted crime boss who died at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu has been released.

A federal jury found Michael Miske Jr. guilty of racketeering conspiracy, murder, and 11 other felony charges in July.

A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaiʻi on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago.