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But the commission’s newest member questions whether it would use the additional authority.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell won’t talk about why he’s not either replaced or reappointed the carpenters union leader.

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be gaining steam in its investigation of Honolulu’s police chief and his wife for alleged corruption and abuse of power.

Former prosecutor Loretta Sheehan says public debate about police misconduct is necessary and healthy.

City Council is being asked to approve hiring three law firms to defend the city and the ethics commission in the Kealoha case.

The public defender who instigated a federal probe says he doesn’t trust the Honolulu Police Commission to investigate the matter on its own.

Targets of a federal corruption probe, the Honolulu police chief and his prosecutor wife struggle to win the battle of public perception.

Charles Djou and Peter Carlisle say the mayor should ask the police chief to step aside during a federal corruption investigation.

Records in a lawsuit by Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife against the city ethics commission shed light on alleged abuses of power by the couple.

The city watchdog agency’s executive director has been under fire ever since he investigated the mayor’s inaugural luau in 2013.