By Joan Conrow, Honolulu Weekly
When the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled three years ago that the public shoreline extends to the seasonally highest wash of the waves, many saw it as a sign that wealthy coastal landowners would no longer be allowed to extend their yards onto the beach.
They were wrong. Despite the ruling, beachfront property [...]

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From the Garden Island
Good-faith settlements have been reached and approved in state court in various wrongful-death and property-damage cases regarding the March 2006 breach of Ka Loko Reservoir Dam near Kilauea.
Eight people died, including an unborn baby, known in court documents as Baby Doe McNees, and several of the bodies were never found as tons [...]

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Two people were arrested last night following a disturbance in the parking lot across from the Waikanaloa Wet Cave in Ha‘ena, a county news release says.
A 39-year-old Kapa‘a man was arrested for reckless endangerment and place to keep firearms, and a 35-year-old Kapa‘a man was arrested for drunk driving.
Both men were released on bail.
According to [...]

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A 25-year-old Princeville man was arrested Monday morning on four counts of first degree terroristic threatening.
Perez Gonday Ragagad is being held at Police Cellblock with his bail set at $20,000.
Police officers responded at around 8:03 a.m. to a report of a domestic argument at Hale Honu apartments in Princeville.
Ragagad confronted the officers wielding a machete [...]

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