Dan Nakaso

Voters will decide whether to change Hawaii's Constitution to make the selection of District Court justices similar to how higher court justices are picked — and whether to rescind legislators' ability to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples.

University of Hawaii regents today received criticism for their search for the next UH president, including concerns over their closed-door discussions about the two finalists and the absence of any local candidates.

Wendy Hensel, 54, executive vice chancellor and university provost for The City University of New York, was unanimously selected today by University of Hawaii regents to become the next UH president, with an annual salary of $675,000.

Wendy Hensel, executive vice chancellor and university provost for The City University of New York, will take over the University of Hawaii system in January — earning an annual salary of $675,000 — after UH regents unanimously selected her Thursday.

Survivors of the Aug. 8, 2023, Lahaina wildfire expressed both clear and often conflicting opinions on how to rebuild the historic fishing village, with many participants in community engagement sessions on long-term recovery calling for better communications and other technological upgrades to respond to future emergencies, climate change and sea-level rise.

The first batch of mail-in ballots arrived Tuesday at the state Capitol and were fed into sorting machines on the floor of the state Senate as volunteer “official observers” monitored every step of the process, beginning with riding in vans with the ballots from the U.S. post office next to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport to the Capitol, and ending their duties only after the Nov. 5 general election, when hand counts will be conducted to verify machine tabulations.

A city team of emergency medical technicians and homeless outreach workers returned to Wahiawa and the North Shore last week, encountered a dozen homeless people and promised to keep coming back to provide first aid, wound care, social services, shelter beds and, ultimately, stable if not permanent housing.

Gov. Josh Green ranks in the top 10 in approval ratings compared with the rest of America's governors, according to separate surveys reported this month.

Wednesday marks the 20th anniversary of a Halloween Eve flash flood that sent a tsunami of mud, water and debris up to 8 feet high roaring through the University of Hawaii Manoa campus, damaging 30 buildings and tossing dumpsters and vehicles in its path.

Detractors show up every day at Honolulu Hale and Kapolei Hale to vote in person and to loudly complain about Hawaii's mail-in ballot process, which voters overwhelmingly prefer.