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Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell signed Bill 42 into law on Thursday, the legislation earmarks $44 million from the city’s general fund to be used for the construction of the 20-mile rail project. The Honolulu City Council voted 7-2 on Tuesday to pass .....»»

The City & County of Honolulu matched a $1 million donation from the Hawaii Community Foundation’s Hawaii Resilience Fund for Covid-19 relief efforts to provide food assistance to recently unemployed individuals, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced .....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Thursday that he is considering modifications to his stay-at-home order that would allow some Oahu businesses that are considered low risk — including golf courses, auto dealerships and real estate companies — to o.....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Tuesday extended Oahu’s stay-at-home, work-from-home order by one month to May 31 to continue controlling the spread of the coronavirus but said that city parks would reopen on Saturday for exercise such as running, walk.....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Wednesday signed a supplemental COVID-19 proclamation ordering all restaurants, bars and nightclubs on Oahu to close indoor services starting Friday for 15 days as Hawaii deals with the coronavirus pandemic. Caldwel.....»»

Mayor Kirk Caldwell and City Council leaders announced their intention to join the wave of more than a dozen lawsuits across the U.S. being brought against fossil fuel companies by cities, counties and states. The Islands are especially susceptib.....»»

Mayor Kirk Caldwell has allowed to become law without his signature a bill requiring the City and County of Honolulu to create project labor agreements for city infrastructure construction projects of $2 million or more, essentially requiring general c.....»»

A ceremony with the traditional untying of the maile lei and Hawaiian blessing took place last week to celebrate the grand opening of a new full-service pharmacy located in Ala Moana-Kakaako. Gov. David Ige, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, and sev.....»»

Mayor Kirk Caldwell and Kathy Sokugawa, acting director of Department of Planning and Permitting, held a press conference Tuesday to clear up misconceptions that the City would not be enforcing the new laws surrounding vacation rentals due to the pe.....»»

The Ala Moana Park Drive improvement project is set to begin in August, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced over the weekend. Improvements to the well-used park area include reconstruction, repaving and restriping all of Ala Moana Park drive. T.....»»

Mayor Kirk Caldwell signed Bill 89 into law Tuesday. In what he calls an “historic signing of a bill,” the measure cracks down on vacation rentals through establishing regulations and increasing fines for operators in violation. “This is s.....»»

The Honolulu City Council voted 5-4 in favor of adopting Resolution 19-55, which would raise real property taxes for hotels and resorts, during its meeting Wednesday. Proposed by Mayor Kirk Caldwell, the resolution would increase property taxes for .....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Tuesday signed into law a bill that provides incentives to owners of small parcels of land in apartment- and business-mixed-use-zoned areas for building walk-up rental buildings for tenants making 100 percent or below the.....»»

Douglas Emmett Inc. on Thursday blessed its addition of four new towers with nearly 500 workforce units to the Moanalua Hillside Apartments complex in Honolulu. Mayor Kirk Caldwell and representatives from the four Hawaii banks that had formed a .....»»

The City and County of Honolulu is classifying Lime’s electric scooters as mopeds, and says the company is violating state and city laws by failing to register the vehicles. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said on Thursday the users or owners of the s.....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell has decided to veto a bill that would have limited surge-pricing for ride-hailing or transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft, a move that the two companies say would have made their business model unwork.....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell hopes to bring well-known individuals with ties to Hawaii such as as former President Barack Obama, Bruno Mars and Oprah Winfrey to next year’s U.S. Conference of Mayors, which will take place in Hawaii for the first t.....»»

The Hawaii Tourism Authority voted this week to give $500,000 to support next year’s U.S. Conference of Mayors, which will take place in Hawaii for the first time in more than 50 years. Last month, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell approached the boa.....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said short-term commercial paper is his administration’s preferred funding mechanism to secure $44 million for the city's rail project. The transfer of city general funds for the $9 billion rail project was made p.....»»

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Wednesday said he will allow a bill requiring building permits for one- and two-family homes to be issued within 60 days to become law without his signature, and announced seven initiatives to speed the building permit proc.....»»