Honolulu City Council

A bill ordering the Honolulu Police Department to share information with news outlets has passed through its final hearing at the Honolulu City Council.

After years of community pushback, the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting will hold a public hearing for the project developers to plead their case and for the public to weigh in. The department hasn’t set a date yet for the hearing.

Nearly 280 proposed charter amendments have been submitted to the Honolulu Charter Commission, including several with a focus on improving farming or ensuring that residents don’t go hungry.

Hawaiʻi Appleseed recommended that the Honolulu City Council work on four areas to improve food security on Oʻahu: disaster planning, summer feeding programs for children, kūpuna programs, and direct funding for food banks.

The Honolulu City Council Budget Committee advanced a bill Tuesday to try and make an unused affordable housing program more attractive to landlords.

The measure would require the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services to provide information on the amount of money the city could see lapse when it submits its budget request.

A controversial gondola project on Oʻahu's North Shore has been facing community pushback for years. But as HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports, it's one of the few projects in Hawaiʻi that has people unified.

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.

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.

District 6 Councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about engaging with the community to improve Chinatown.