In the four years since Hawaiʻi made it a felony to manufacture or possess unserialized parts used to create firearms, the number of ghost guns that police are recovering has increased dramatically.

The Honolulu Police Department bought a robot dog at the height of the pandemic with $150,000 in federal COVID aid, but it hasn't been used for years. John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois explain.

The Mayor’s proposed budget for 2026 has been released. It’s a massive $3.93 billion operating budget plus $1.2 billion in capital improvements.

The mayor said his fifth budget proposal is the best so far in executing his agenda: “We don’t spend money we don’t have.”

In the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, flush with federal relief money, the Honolulu Police Department made national headlines for spending $150,000 on a robot dog.

The council acted in November 2023 to reduce a backlog of permit applications, but the program hasn't launched yet.

If we could get this project right, it could be a model for Hawaiʻi actually doing big things successfully again.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A flashback to Feb. 22, 2011 — Saturday marks 14 years since the rail project broke ground in a field in Kapolei. Back then, the people in charge said it would cost about $5 billion. It’s now more than $10 billion and more than a mile shorter with six years to go before it’s done.

The rise of artificial intelligence is expected to significantly disrupt more than 33% of workers in urban Honolulu.

Mayor Rick Blangiardi has requested a bigger budget for the next fiscal year. The proposed operating budget is $3.9 billion – an over 8% increase from last year, and the capital improvement project budget is $1.

Honolulu’s Managing Director Mike Formby and 11 others will continue in their roles as the city’s top appointed officials.