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Native Hawaiians set to receive $600 million for housing after decades of neglect
The Hawaii Legislature on Thursday unanimously passed landmark legislation appropriating $600 million for the state’s Native Hawaiian homesteading program, a chronically underfunded initiative that has long fallen short of its promise to return Native people to their ancestral land. → Read More
Hawaii lawmakers propose $600M to fix Native Hawaiian housing program
Legislative leaders in Hawaii are calling for the appropriation of $600 million to help house Native Hawaiians through a chronically underfunded homesteading program that has fallen short of its promise to return Native people to their ancestral lands. → Read More
Do you live in the Kanehili or Kauluokahai subdivisions? We have questions about the quality of your homes
Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Rob Perez and the newsroom ProPublica are continuing their examination of the Hawaiian Homes program and would like to find people who purchased homes in Kapolei and are experiencing problems such as sewage backups, cracking walls, poorly graded lots, faulty plumbing and more. If you’ve been affected, we’d like to know about how you like living in your home,… → Read More
Interior secretary lauds land transfer to Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to head a Cabinet agency, struggled to contain her emotions Monday as she spoke about the imminent transfer of 80 acres of excess federal land to a trust for Native Hawaiians. → Read More
Casino plan underscores worsening problems with homesteading program
This fall, as the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands faced mounting criticism over its handling of a century-old program to return Native Hawaiians to their ancestral lands, top officials asked their staff to come up with bold solutions. → Read More
Proposed Kapolei casino survives narrow vote to move forward
A controversial proposal to develop a casino resort on lands set aside for Native Hawaiians in Kapolei survived a narrow vote Tuesday at the Hawaiian Homes Commission and now heads to Gov. David Ige for his consideration. → Read More
Kapolei casino seen as key to land trust’s future
Given the severe budget deficits expected by the state over the next several years, a plan to develop a West Oahu casino is key to avoiding the prospect of more Native Hawaiians waiting decades for homesteads and thousands dying without getting onto the land, according to an executive with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. → Read More
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to help with down payments
Unable to keep pace with the soaring demand for housing, the state agency that manages a homesteading program for Native Hawaiians is taking a radical step in a new direction. → Read More
Hawaiian Home Lands considers proposal to build casino in Kapolei
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands dropped a bombshell on its website late Tuesday, floating the idea of building a casino on trust land in Kapolei. → Read More
How we found low-income Hawaiians were left behind by the homesteading program
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive ProPublica’s biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, a member of the ProPublica Read More → Read More
Justices fault state for mismanaging Hawaiian land trust
The Hawaii Supreme Court issued a stinging rebuke Tuesday to the state for what the justices unanimously called wrongful conduct that has resulted in the state’s failure to reduce a growing wait list of Native Hawaiians seeking homesteads. → Read More
Hawaii Supreme Court rules in favor of Native Hawaiians in land trust case
The Hawaii Supreme Court today took the state to task for its mismanagement of the land trust for Native Hawaiians and allowed a class-action lawsuit to proceed to a phase for calculating damages in a major victory for some 2,700 plaintiffs in the case. → Read More
Growing air tours crowd isle skies
With sightseers hoping to get a bird’s-eye view of flowing lava, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park in 2018 was the most popular site in the country for commercial air tours of national parks. → Read More
Ed Case calls helicopter tours unsafe, wants stricter regulations
In the wake of the Kauai helicopter crash, U.S. Rep. Ed Case on Friday voiced blistering criticism of the tour helicopter and small-aircraft industry, saying it is unsafe, completely incapable of self-regulation and locally has ignored sensible safety improvements. → Read More
DHHL lets delinquent lease swell to $242,000
The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for years allowed a Big Island man to make sporadic lease payments on a parcel in Hilo, with the past due amount eventually growing to six figures. → Read More
Sentencing for Kealohas delayed until Halloween
U.S. District Chief Judge J. Michael Seabright agreed Thursday to delay the sentencing of Katherine and Louis Kealoha for their conspiracy and obstruction convictions while settlement talks continue related to the couples upcoming trial on bank fraud charges and a later drug-related trial involving Katherine Kealoha and her brother. → Read More
Sentencing for Kealohas delayed until Halloween
A federal judge today agreed to delay the sentencing of Katherine and Louis Kealoha for their conspiracy and obstruction of justice convictions until Halloween because of ongoing settlement talks related to the couples upcoming trial on charges of bank fraud and a later drug-related trial involving Katherine and her brother. → Read More
New trial in Kealoha civil case may be in order, judge says
A state judge Friday said he was inclined to grant a new trial in the civil dispute between Katherine Kealoha and her grandmother and uncle, but the case needs to be sent back from an appellate court before the judge can do so, according to the attorney for the Kealoha relatives. → Read More
DHHL-city land swap for rail stirs questions
Another pending land swap involving the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is raising questions about whether the agencys Native Hawaiian beneficiaries are getting the short end of the deal. → Read More
Hawaii has mixed record on sanctions for nurses, physicians
A decade ago a woman surrendered her nursing license in Wyoming to settle allegations that she altered a prescription to obtain a controlled substance for herself. → Read More