Plaintiffs said they didn’t know about fuel samples until it was too late. The judge declined their request to punish the government.

The Japanese American men were students at the University of Hawaiʻi and cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, on track to become Army officers, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 

Power, restraint and the cost of governing without consent.

The charges against Maj. Blaine McGraw stem from Texas cases, but at least 10 Hawaiʻi patients are also claiming misconduct.

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.