The city has limited options when it comes to disposing tons of refuse from the flash floods that roared through the North Shore last month.

Honolulu’s only waste incinerator needs fresh investment to bring it up to international standards, council vice-chair says.

Disagreements include whether more services will help current Westside homeless or if they will just become a magnet for more.

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. 

Representatives of Nānākuli High and Intermediate School say they have been left out of Oʻahu’s upcoming school resource officer pilot program.

A 15-acre campus is expected to include a food bank, fruit trees, community kitchen, wastewater treatment center and more.

The Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority is closing in on a final plan for Kalaeloa but major infrastructure needs mean it will be years before new development can begin. 

State support for gang intervention efforts has dropped since the 1990s and tracking has been minimal since then, too.

The experience of moving to a relatively new community isn’t typical to the islands. But there it is just off H-1.

The influx of new officers to the Westside is meant to improve response times, but the interim police chief has declined to say how long it currently takes police to respond to calls.