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Endless Infighting at OHA Starts To Cost Real Money 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.

OHA: Agency at a Crossroads Is Caught in a Power Struggle 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.

OHA Spent $4,785 on a Massive March With an Anti-TMT Flavor 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.

OHA Board Rescinds Support for Thirty Meter Telescope 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.

Protesters Ask ‘Voice of the Hawaiian People’ to Stop Mauna Kea Telescope 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.

Peter Apo: Why Does the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Exist? 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.

Peter Apo: The Hawaiians — Building a Nation and the Road Ahead 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.

Office of Hawaiian Affairs: Incumbents Fare Well Chad Blair/Civil Beat

Office of Hawaiian Affairs: Incumbents Fare Well

Four seats are up for grabs on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees.