At least 10 women who were patients of Maj. Blaine McGraw when he was a resident at Tripler Army Medical Center are lining up to sue the OB-GYN and the Army.

Gov. Josh Green has requested billions in investments for the military to continue training on state lands, including funds for cleaning military waste. Native Hawaiian groups say the community should spearhead the cleanup. 

The state faces unusual challenges as it looks to proceed with military land leases and the TMT project.

OHA Chair Kai Kahale described the possibility of the federal government using eminent domain to retain state land as a “tired tactic colonizers have used for generations.”

Money for environmental cleanup, transportation projects and housing are on the governor’s wish list.

Board Chair Kai Kahele plans to take up the issue at an OHA meeting on the Big Island in November.

Families who drank tainted water on Oʻahu were not informed that the Navy was sitting on the key proof, their lawyers allege. Now it is too late. 

As the second Trump administration engages in its campaign of mass deportations, military experts and veterans say immigrant troops and their relatives are once again targets.

One of the defense attorneys said his client may be a scapegoat for those truly responsible.

Legal experts and some military officials are concerned that deployment in more U.S. cities could set up conflicts not seen since the civil rights era.