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  • 1 week ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Mark Ladao

    The Honolulu City Council will hold another hearing to reappoint Dr. Jim Ireland to lead the Honolulu Emergency Services Department — after postponing it following complaints from former employees. On Wednesday the full council will consider whether to confirm Ireland as HESD’s director for Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s second term. Written testimony ahead of the hearing has mostly been positive.

  • 1 week ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Mark Ladao

    Local officials are continuing their calls for changes to federal policies that “severely” limit Hawaiʻi from exporting agricultural goods.

  • 2 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Mark Ladao

    Should jaywalking be allowed in Hawaiʻi? State lawmakers are considering a three-year pilot program on some islands to do just that.

  • 3 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Mark Ladao

    Kauaʻi Mayor Derek Kawakami is suggesting an exemption for the island if state lawmakers pass a measure to ban the placement of landfills over aquifers. The measure, Senate Bill 438, is largely a response to the City and County of Honolulu's plans to site its next landfill in Wahiawā — on farmland and near a drinking water aquifer. Kauaʻi's landfill in Kekaha is also reaching capacity.

  • 3 weeks ago | savingseafood.org | Mark Ladao

    March 28, 2025 — Hawaiʻi’s longline fishers are facing record lows in profits, according to a recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For years, NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center has collected data on fishing trip costs and earnings for Hawaiʻi’s commercial longline fishery, and surveyed 60 fishers to get data for 2022. PIFSC found that the average fishing vessel made around $808,000 in gross revenue that year.

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I had no idea there were bison in Hawaii. Neat.

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