The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands awarded leases to 24 families in West Oahu on Saturday, 16 in Kapolei and eight in Waianae. The homes will be DHHL's first factory-built modular single-family houses, a pilot meant to cut costs and add up to 240 homes a year.
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A system near the International Date Line has organized into Tropical Depression Three-C, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center said in its first forecast discussion Sunday morning. Satellite and scatterometer passes showed a small but well-defined circulation with curved bands forming.
UH football snapped a four-game losing streak with a 56-21 rout at Northern Illinois, a trip of more than 4,200 miles that UH calls the farthest conference game in FBS history. The Rainbow Warriors piled up a season-high 504 yards and tied the program record for points in a Mountain West game, improving to 2-6.
Hawaiʻi voters will decide two state constitutional amendments on Nov. 3: one giving the Senate 60 days instead of 30 to confirm certain judicial appointments, and one letting counties and developers use infrastructure bonds to pay for public works. Hawaiʻi County voters also face a charter question letting the county auditor appoint a deputy.
Civil Beat's Sunshine Blog reports that super PACs have spent $3.8 million on electioneering in Hawaiʻi since late September to support or oppose about three dozen candidates ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Much of it came from For A Better Tomorrow, the super PAC tied to Pacific Resource Partnership.
