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Community volunteer group Friends of Ha‘ikū Stairs filed a suit against the City and County of Honolulu earlier this week. The plaintiffs argue that the city's violating the state's environmental protection act.
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The Honolulu City Council passed a combined $4.2 billion budget Wednesday for both operations and capital improvement projects. Hallmarks of the budgets include $1 million to increase Honolulu Police Department patrol staffing; over $50 million for affordable housing projects; and $1.3 million to remove Haʻikū Stairs.
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The Honolulu City Council has passed a measure urging the city to dismantle the steps at the popular and closed hiking trail known as Stairway to Heaven.
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The Honolulu City Council is expected to decide on the future of the Haʻikū Stairs later this month, so The Conversation has been taking the time to explore the history behind the kapu, forbidden, “Stairway to Heaven.”
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Hawaiʻi County has the highest coronavirus positivity rate in the state — how are Big Island health officials handling this latest surge? Hawaiʻi's golden girl Carissa Moore gets the spotlight in a new surfing exhibit. And amidst the clamor to tear down the Haʻikū Stairs, we learn more about the local architect behind the controversial construction.
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East-West Center Senior Fellow Tim Brown shares what you need to know about the Delta variant; University of California at San Diego researcher Omar Akbari talks laying the groundwork to one day reduce mosquito populations in Hawaiʻi; University of Hawaiʻi Marine Option Program Director Cynthia Hunter looks back on 50 years of the MOP; and John Flannigan, one of the early organizers of the Friends of Haiku Stairs, talks keeping the unique trail open.
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To celebrate the 231st birthday of the U.S. Coast Guard, The Conversation stopped to reflect on the history of the branch whose mission includes maritime safety, national security and environmental stewardship — its motto is “Always Ready.”
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One of the most popular, and illegal, hiking trails in O?ahu may not exist for much longer.The Honolulu City Council advanced a bill that would fund $1…
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Ownership of a stairway that snakes along a mountainside in Hawaii has been transferred to the city of Honolulu in hopes of transforming the currently…
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The Honolulu Board of Water Supply has voted to transfer management of Haiku Stairs and the surrounding land to the City and County of Honolulu.A…