Honolulu Police Department

The City and County of Honolulu is still actively recruiting displaced federal employees and professionals from non-governmental organizations impacted by federal funding cuts. This is in response to Gov. Josh Green's executive order on Feb. 18 that aims to tap into the pool of laid-off federal workers and fill over 4,000 open positions in state government.

Officer Austin Ewaliko, a five-year veteran of HPD, allegedly used the department's internal system to research the case and then provided confidential information to suspects.

The Honolulu Police Department and Prosecuting Attorney say they’ve started investigating a dozen online sexual abuse cases over the last four months. Some teens have been convinced to send offenders explicit photos and videos of themselves.

Police say a sixth person has died as a result of a massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year’s in Honolulu. A 30-year-old woman died at a local hospital at about 5:59 a.m. Wednesday, the Honolulu Police Department said in a statement.

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.

It's unclear when the group accessed the illegal hike, but the video shows them on various portions of the trail and two of them throwing a metal barricade off the mountainside.

Two couples that were arrested on Jan. 31 are facing allegations of endangering the welfare of a minor, reckless endangerment, and multiple fireworks offenses.

The unsolved death of a teenager in 1977 haunted students and staff at Honolulu's McKinley High School for nearly half a century. But last week, police used advances in DNA technology to arrest a resident of a Utah nursing home in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. The suspect, former McKinley student Gideon Castro, made an appearance Friday in Salt Lake County District Court and faces eventual extradition to Hawaiʻi.

Police have arrested a total of six people in connection with a deadly explosion of illegal fireworks in a Honolulu neighborhood on New Year’s Eve. They've also confiscated 500 pounds of unused fireworks from the scene of the blast.

Honolulu police say that human remains discovered off a North Shore beach match the DNA of one of the two Mililani teens reported missing last week.