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.

Lease negotiations should proceed on island time, not military time.

The two men are accused of making false statements and withholding information about the May 2021 fuel spill.