Manu-o-Kū with chick.
The streets of Downtown Honolulu might not be the first place you d think to bird watch, but at least one very special bird calls this city home: the indigenous manu-o-Kū, also known as the white tern.
These medium-sized seabirds are entirely white, with the exception of their large, dark eyes, encircled by black rings. Their otherworldly appearance has earned them the nicknames fairy tern and angel tern. Their song is far from heavenly, however listen for their throaty
grrich-grrich-grrich.
Surveillance images show suspect wanted for setting homeless man on fire
Surveillance images show suspect wanted for setting homeless man on fire By Allyson Blair | May 13, 2021 at 4:52 PM HST - Updated May 13 at 6:55 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - New surveillance images show the person suspected of setting a homeless man on fire in Downtown Honolulu in a horrific attack that left the victim critically injured.
So far, police have made no arrests in the case.
The pictures show the victim had been attacked twice in the span of just a few hours.
The first time, the suspect wore a blue bandanna, black sleeves over his arms and in his left hand held what HPD sources say is a Molotov cocktail.
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Bikeshare Hawaii will be downsizing its Biki service starting Thursday due to economic impacts caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the nonprofit, it will decommission six docking stations and reduce its call center hours over the next few months.
Bikeshare Hawaii executive director Todd Boulanger said ridership and revenue in 2020 were cut in half from the previous year. Our stations up at the colleges – KCC, UH Manoa, HPU – aren’t being used, and additionally Downtown, a lot of our stations have much less use because of people working at home, he said. And it doesn’t even get into the COVID tourism gap, the number of rides that no longer use our system from the kiosk, which is how most tourists use the system.