Condominium associations are lobbying Honolulu City Council Chair Tommy Waters to repeal a law that requires high-rise condos to install costly fire sprinkler systems, prompting Waters to seek input from the Waikiki Neighborhood Board.
The city Department of Parks and Recreation is making plans to extend Kuhio Beach Park’s daily closure by an extra two hours a move that will broaden the park’s shutdown from midnight to 5 a.m.
At the worst point of the pandemic it was possible to walk down Kalakaua Avenue the 50-yard line of the state’s tourism economy without encountering cars or people. It was so quiet that wild chickens wandered freely through the neighborhood.