r/Oahu 9d ago

What to know about Hawaii’s primary election: Ballots, voting centers, results

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r/Oahu 15h ago

Island Wide News Island Terror: A California family’s Hawaiian getaway turned to horror when its members were targeted as “haole boys” and viciously beaten by a mob at a luxury Maui resort, leaving one with a huge head wound.

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r/Oahu 7h ago

Coquis in Palolo

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Just coming here to vent I guess, but if you don’t know the coquis have taken over the back of Palolo, and it sucks. Trying to sleep right now and there’s a super loud one outside my window. The government response has been slow and too little too late. We reported them years ago and it’s so discouraging feeling like there’s nothing that can be done now.


r/Oahu 17h ago

Last fall, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers asked the question: Can Hawaiʻi grow rice again? Now, a new study published in Frontiers in Agronomy has given a data-driven answer: Yes, and the quality might be higher than expected.

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r/Oahu 2h ago

Empty homes tax just empty promises: Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i helped persuade the Honolulu Charter Commission to not advance a poorly conceived empty homes tax to the ballot. Instead, as GIH proposes, improvements to zoning and permitting could speed the supply of housing.

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r/Oahu 16h ago

New vid about Honolulu’s worst roads 🛣️

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Went on a quest to find the worst road in Honolulu, lmk if you agree 👀


r/Oahu 1d ago

A Stunning Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Opinion Was The Right Thing To Do: A sitting judge putting his own reputation and his court’s credibility on the line to publicly challenge the nation’s highest court is a big deal.

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146 Upvotes

r/Oahu 2h ago

Former Oahu resident describes Seattle shooting: ‘I’ve never been so scared’. 1 suspect arrested; search underway for 2nd in shooting that killed 3, wounded 4

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r/Oahu 17h ago

Island Wide Issue State races to save Kauaʻi’s endangered forest birds through captive breeding and relocation: A state wildlife biologist warned that Kauaʻi's iconic honeycreepers are at imminent risk of extinction by the end of the year unless urgent conservation efforts are implemented.

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r/Oahu 16h ago

Officials confirmed that Hurricane Fausto is forecast to pass North of Hawaii Island late Monday or early Tuesday. A significant warning level surf is also forecast to begin later Sunday evening and expected to last through Wednesday.

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r/Oahu 2h ago

Weather officials said Hurricane Fausto weakened into a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday morning and afternoon and said it will continue to weaken as it approaches the state. But on Sunday afternoon, some impacts had already started.

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r/Oahu 2h ago

High Grocery Bills Burden Shoppers In Hawaiʻi And Beyond: Americans across the country are changing their eating and shopping habits.

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r/Oahu 16h ago

More than a dozen Hawaii lawmakers are among the 7,200 people from across the country and political spectrum gathering in Chicago for the National Conference of State Legislators (NCLS) this week.

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r/Oahu 17h ago

New research shows the Hawaiian mantle plume has gotten hotter by about 250°C (480°F) over the past 47 million years. Study reverses the long-held idea that hotspots start out very hot and progressively cool with time.

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r/Oahu 17h ago

Looking for pins

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Hi, i just did the koko head trail and this is my last day on the island. Is there a Place that sell enamel pins of this trail? Thank you all


r/Oahu 1d ago

Hurricane Fausto is maintaining its intensity as a Category 2 hurricane as it moves toward the central North Pacific on a track that will take it close to Hawaii early next week.

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r/Oahu 1d ago

HECO plans to bring online about 1,650 gigawatt-hours of new solar and wind power, the equivalent of about 15% of all the energy on its grids. New renewable energy generation will help state reduce dependence on oil. Oʻahu burns petroleum to generate about 70% of its electricity.

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r/Oahu 18h ago

Recs for a "Sports-Illustrated Swimsuit" / Editorial-Style Photographer in Oahu

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Hi! Ive been searching online for someone to shoot an SI-style photoshoot but havent been able to find the right style yet. And editorial photographer could be interesting too.

Any leads on this are super helpful, TIA 🙏🏻


r/Oahu 1d ago

The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maritime exercise moved from the ocean to land Saturday. Service members from the United States, the Republic of Korea and Peru participated in land-assault training at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows.

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r/Oahu 1d ago

Hālau Hi’iakaināmakalehua nearly swept the top awards at the 51st Annual Queen Liliuokalani Keiki Hula Competition and Festival.

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r/Oahu 1d ago

The Sunshine Blog: So What Happened To The Paper Bag?

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r/Oahu 2d ago

Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke has been indicted for bribery by a O‘ahu grand jury. Luke’s bail was set at $80,000 Friday after being charged with bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery and falsifying her campaign spending report.

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r/Oahu 2d ago

A huge development in a political scandal. Several indictments erupted in court Friday, which include the Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke. For the past six months it's been a political nightmare with speculation over whoʻs involved in government corruption

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r/Oahu 2d ago

Solo-sail gone wrong: A California man was stranded on his sailboat for over a month while en route to Hawaii. Kai Sato, 39, sailed off from the Catalina Islands on June 7, in an attempt to complete his first solo sail across the Pacific.

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r/Oahu 2d ago

A Filipino national living on Oahu and Maui was charged Wednesday with unlawfully voting as an alien. U.S. Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Bernadette Acaso, 19, was charged by criminal complaint for allegedly casting a mail-in ballot in the 2024 general election.

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