Cory Lum/Civil Beat
Incumbents Look To Hold Off Reformers In OHA Trustee Elections
Trustees Apoliona, Machado and Lindsey want another term. Could high-profile challengers upset the status quo?
PF Bentley/Civil Beat
OHA CEO Crabbe Reappointed
The Board of Trustees has approved a new three-year contract.
PF Bentley/Civil Beat
Office of Hawaiian Affairs Has 10 Employees In The Six-Figure Range
Civil Beat’s salary database finds 164 OHA employees working to improve the lives of Native Hawaiians.
PF Bentley/Civil Beat
Endless Infighting at OHA Starts To Cost Real Money
No settlement in sight, as a court battle between Rowena Akana and her fellow Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees enters year three.
Chad Blair/Civil Beat
OHA: Agency at a Crossroads Is Caught in a Power Struggle
UPDATED: Mauna Kea, ceded lands and internal battles occupy the quasi-state agency as Native Hawaiian nation-building looms.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015
OHA Spent $4,785 on a Massive March With an Anti-TMT Flavor
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs CEO authorized the funds, stating that the goals and outcomes of the march were “directly supportive” of the agency’s strategic priorities.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat
OHA Board Rescinds Support for Thirty Meter Telescope
But the trustees decline to go on record as opposing the $1.4 billion project.
Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat
Protesters Ask ‘Voice of the Hawaiian People’ to Stop Mauna Kea Telescope
Growing movement to block the $1.4 billion TMT project turns to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for help.
Civil Beat
Peter Apo: Why Does the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Exist?
OHA is a well-funded agency with a big and often misunderstood mission on behalf of Native Hawaiians.
PF Bentley/Civil Beat
Peter Apo: The Hawaiians — Building a Nation and the Road Ahead
The time has come to begin answering the difficult questions about what comes next.