Rick Blangiardi

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi has vetoed parts of the city budget to restore funding to the city’s Office of Economic Revitalization, but the Honolulu City Council may decide to override that action.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi shares updates on the latest forecast for the incoming storm and information on where to seek storm shelter.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi shares the latest storm outlook; Ernie Lau, with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply urges customers to store water ahead of possible power outages

Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s administration has given the Honolulu City Council a preliminary cost and damage estimate of up to $52 million, and that's likely to grow.

Kathleen Pahinui was one of hundreds of residents who fled severe flooding and a potential dam failure on Oʻahu's North Shore. She’s a longtime Waialua resident, right in the evacuation zone of the Wahiawā Dam.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi shares information on how to assist communities recovering from the floods brought by the Kona low storms.

Blangiardi began his address Wednesday evening saying that the city faces many challenges, but that “ there is none greater and none more consequential to the people of Hawaiʻi than our affordability crisis.”

With a relatively conservative budget in the works for the upcoming fiscal year, the Honolulu City Council and administration officials are brainstorming possible sources of revenue for Oʻahu.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi is taking about $50 million from vacant city positions in a proposed $5.09 billion city budget that anticipates higher inflation and growing expenses, but little revenue growth.

The BID's budget for its first fiscal year is nearly $2 million, most of which will be funded by fees collected from landowners based on the assessed values of their properties.