Roth Administration News Today

3,884 building permits issued for single-family homes in five-year span.

Hawai’i County, in a letter to ACLU of Hawai’i, defended its May 24 “large-scale enforcement operation” to remove homeless people from a county park in Kona.

There was uneasiness among at least a dozen houseless adults who were camped in front of Hawaiʻi County’s Kona Aquatics Center on Tuesday as they awaited their inevitable so-called eviction the next day.

Following an override of Mayor Mitch Roth’s veto, Bill 194 is now a Hawai‘i County ordinance that brings requests for time extensions for zoning changes to come back to the County Council.

Mayor Roth Returns from Our Ocean Conference

For decades, Puna residents commuting to and from the city center of Hilo more than 10 miles away have had only one route choice — Highway 130, also known as the Keaʻau-Pāhoa Road.

Mayor Roth Eases COVID Restrictions