All nine members of the 2017 Honolulu City Council have now testified before a federal grand jury investigating the payoff for disgraced ex-HPD Chief Louis Kealoha.

“He went over and just grabbed the guy. Like he just bear hugged him. Then I called the cops."

New Councilman Calvin Say described Roy Amemiya’s position as a legislative liaison and said it’s a temporary position, lasting between six months and a year.

Masunaga is co-conspirator number 4 in the 2019 federal indictment that charged former deputy city prosecutor Katherine Kealoha and her brother, Dr. Rudolph Puana, with drug crimes.

“Old Kaimuki is certainly changing but to build these huge apartment buildings here is frightening and simply disgusting."

More officials currently or previously tied to Honolulu Hale are being called to testify in connection with a federal probe stemming from the Kealoha scandal.

One out of every 5 parking tickets issued in Hawaii over the last five years has gone unpaid, Hawaii News Now has learned.

Some Hawaii non-profits are already noticing an uptick in the number of people participating in homeless programs.

The Hawaii Central Federal Credit Union filed a court document late last month asking for money leftover from the sale to pay for legal fees.

Iwasa, a former candidate for Honolulu City Council, will serve as a non-voting member.

Katherine Kealoha falsely told the man that his mother could go to jail if he told the truth during his grand jury testimony.

A federal judge sentenced Katherine Kealoha to 13 years last month, but the Bureau of Prisons has since set her release date at July 24, 2030, less than a decade from now.

At Environmental Services, she oversaw the $5.2 billion wastewater project connecting Kailua and Kaneohe, which the city says is the second-largest public works project next to the rail system.

“With the new stadium, there’s going to be housing and entertainment. It’s going to be unbelievable to have a station like this, right here, I think is a game changer,” he said.

The federal funding was set to lapse at the end of this year, but the appropriations bill extends the deadline to the end of next year.

Only one board member objected to Robbins being removed as CEO.

Caldwell emphasized the importance of the funding, especially with the financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic.

Data obtained from the facility’s daily census shows that between Apr. 8 and Nov. 21, the facility was less than half full 90 percent of the time.

Hawaii County has made plans public aimed at guiding the Big Island’s recovery from the impact of the devastating volcanic eruption that destroyed hundreds of homes and business assets.

City officials are among the witnesses being called to testify before a federal grand jury.

They say problems with the electricity started a couple months ago.

“There’s no question to me that the city is liable for a lot of that. We’re not going to get restitution from the Kealohas, they don’t have anything left,” said Puana’s attorney. “The city is on the hook.”

Katherine Kealoha, a former high-ranking deputy city prosecutor, orchestrated the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who trusted her, as well as financial institutions.

Bill 7 provides property tax incentives to developers to encourage more affordable rentals.

“The breadth of this criminal conduct is astonishing. It reached the highest levels of our city government."

“The chief of police of a major American city worked overtime to frame a person with a crime he did not commit. The oath didn’t matter."

“We take solace in knowing that the people involved in this conspiracy have been stopped."

“There have been a lot of tears shed over this project by a lot of people."

In the five-page letter, Kealoha says she has been locked in her cell for 23 hours a day since April because of the pandemic and calls her time behind bars “my cross to bear.”

HART CEO Andrew Robbins has maintained the so-called P3 was the best way forward for the $10 billion project.

The program launched three months ago and is already playing a critical role in testing homeless individuals and preventing larger clusters.

The city is using $20.6 million in federal funds for the purchase.

People earning less than 80 percent of the area median income can apply to live in the units.

When will the first phase of the rail project, from Kapolei to Aloha Stadium, open to riders?

“It’s become abundantly clear that construction prices are not going to get any better by cancelling this procurement."

Gary Singh Singh told Chief Judge J. Michael Seabright that Kealoha refused to meet with him on Nov. 3 and again on Nov. 6 at the Federal Detention Center, where she is being held

Nurse practitioners are questioning their own education at some colleges. There’s no national standard on how to educate nurse practitioners, while medical education for doctors was standardized more than 100 years ago.

Katherine Kealoha, who is in jail while awaiting sentencing for a conspiracy conviction wants to participate in hearings for a lawsuit her uncle filed against her by telephone because of the pandemic.

A board vote on the P-3 negotiations was scheduled on Oct. 27, but he feels that's too late.

During a meeting of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s board, the rail authority said the increase includes $832 million in higher construction costs.

The investigation into Saffeels’ behavior was initiated after a series of Hawaii News Now reports that included interviews with some of the women involved.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Thursday the bids for the final and most expensive leg of the rail project came in too high.

HART is reportedly going ahead without the city, saying legitimate bidders are ready to finish the project.

“Why can’t we work together to make it work so that a city project can have the proper permits," a city councilwoman said.

It’s called TheBusLane and it’s designed to speed up the commute for Downtown bus riders.

Robbins' fate with the problem-plagued rail authority, however, is still up in the air because his three-year contract expires at the end of the year. So far, the HART board has taken no action to extend it.

“Whenever we hear about delays we know that’s going to add to cost."

A nationwide operation started on Tuesday to accurately count people experiencing homelessness.

DHHL estimates rent will range from $633 for studios, to $3,133 for 3-bedroom town home units.

It was the only affordable housing project in the works for Kailua.

He earned $316,000 a year as HART’s CEO.

Hawaii County Council members have accused the county’s administrators of a slow response in enacting programs to assist the public’s recovery from the Kilauea volcanic eruption two years ago.

Hawaii News Now obtained an email in response to a community complaint written by the Department of Transportation’s Homeless Coordinator that said the agency’s been “forced to pause all clean-up operations."

But getting a bed at the Institute for Human Services men’s shelter likely won’t be as easy as it used to be.

Kailua residents don't want the project in their neighborhood, but supporters say its desperately needed.

Almost two years after he received a subject letter from the US Department of Justice and went on leave, deputy city Prosecutor Chasid Sapolu is back at work.

“We know there’s a lot of people that want to help. That want to do this kind of work. And those are the kind of people we’re looking for."

Another sentencing date could finally be set for Honolulu’s former police chief, Louis Kealoha, his wife Katherine, a former deputy prosecutor, and two police officers who were found guilty on June 27, 2019 of obstruction and conspiracy.