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Next year Oʻahu voters could be asked if the city’s mayor should be given the ability to hire and fire the chief of the Honolulu Police Department, which is currently something only the commission can do.
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UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn was arrested and charged with third-degree assault this week. Penn is scheduled to make an initial court appearance on Dec. 2 in Hilo District Court. This is Penn's sixth arrest of the year.
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News anchor and filmmaker David Ono spoke with HPR’s Russell Subiono about his multimedia documentary on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion called “Defining Courage.”
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The state Board of Education has approved a four-year contract for current Superintendent Keith Hayashi that represents an 18% raise, plus performance-based incentives.
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Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority’s Chief Administrative Officer David Uchiyama spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz about the potential cuts to flights at Honolulu's Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is being sued by its own CEO, Stacy Ferreira, two months after she was placed on administrative leave.
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The King Kamehameha Celebration Commission is worried that the crumbling infrastructure surrounding the statue is a safety hazard for visitors and people celebrating King Kamehameha Day.
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Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates. That's according to a study by University of Hawaiʻi researchers that's out Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.
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Parking mandates can have a large impact on affordable housing projects, according to a report by Hawaiʻi Appleseed. HPR’s Ashley Mizuo looks at the cost of building parking.
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A new bill moving through the city council is trying to clean up the language in the city’s traffic code, which says that bikes are not allowed on sidewalks in business districts.
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Former Miss Hawaii Cheryl Bartlett spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz about a rally being held at the Prince Kūhiō Federal Building on Wednesday afternoon as her husband faces deportation.
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Three of the students behind the podcast “Waves & Wisdom” spoke to HPR’s DW Gibson about being placed in the Top 10 of NPR’s annual student podcast challenge.