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Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Navy had six months to respond.

WASHINGTON — Not since the dark day at Pearl Harbor that drew America into World War II has there been so much trouble in paradise.

"They looked me in the eye and told me… 'We would never poison our own people,'" one former water resource management commissioner said. "And they lied. They lied about all of it."

The Stranger's morning news roundup.

The island home to Hawaii's capital may be surrounded by ocean, but years-long drought conditions, tourist activities and contamination are jeopardizing the island's only source of freshwater.

After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.

Dozens of ultra-rich investors including Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey have bought up a significant chunk of the Aloha State. Here is a breakdown of who owns what.

Bills in the state House would pave the way for a nuclear power plant in Hawaii — a prospect that seems to run counter to rights in the state Constitution ensuring a “clean and healthful environment.”

The state water official who was reassigned in a controversial move following the Lahaina fire disaster and then reinstated two months later is apparently leaving his job.

As the defueling of the Red Hill fuel facility enters its final stages and the Navy prepares for a long cleanup and closure process, the U.S. military is looking at how it will support its vast Indo-Pacific operations without it.