Shane Palacat-Nelsen’s voice drops to a reverent tone as he tells the story of the snow goddess Poliahu, who Native Hawaiians believe inhabits the summit of Mauna Kea, the highest point in Hawaii. Read more
The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory telescope on Mauna Kea has been removed and packed for shipment to Chile. Read more
Defining the word “construction” took up a large part of a more than three-hour Tuesday hearing that could determine whether a permit to develop the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea is valid. Read more
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A hearing over whether the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope has officially launched construction has been postponed and will not be heard Friday at the state Board of Land and Natural Resources. Read more
Project permits have a shelf life, usually, even for projects as momentous as the Thirty Meter Telescope. Figuring out whether the permit issued in 2017 by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources has timed out is the point of a hearing tentatively set for July 29. Read more
Is the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope really under construction? Read more
The Lahui Foundation is scheduled to host a Kia‘i Expungement Clinic today at the Kahuku Community Center in an effort to help expunge the arrest records of nonviolent protesters. Read more
Nelson Ho described himself as someone who has raised public awareness of the shortcomings of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources for more than 40 years (“Is DLNR nominee first stumble for Green?,” Island Voices, Star-Advertiser, Jan. 4). Read more
The National Science Foundation is already behind in its effort to evaluate whether the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project should be reinvigorated with $850,000 or more in public funds. Read more
A legal challenge to the University of Hawaii’s administrative rules governing uses and activities on Mauna Kea took a detour to the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday. Read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging the National Science Foundation to consider alternative construction sites for the Thirty Meter Telescope — and possibly a smaller version of the proposed observatory — in its upcoming environmental review of the controversial project. Read more
Monday is the last day to submit comments on the proposed scope of the National Science Foundation’s environmental review of the $2.65 million Thirty Meter Telescope project. Read more
For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to many Native Hawaiians that is also one of the finest places in the world to study the night sky. Read more
Many of the same folks who blocked construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea in 2015 and 2019 dominated the four meetings about the cutting- edge proposal held this week on Hawaii island. Read more
The first public meetings in a campaign that seeks to breathe new life into the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope begin this week on Hawaii island. Read more
For years now, the debate over the Thirty Meter Telescope has generated more heat than light. Read more
The National Science Foundation said Tuesday that it is launching a full environmental review of the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project, a two-year process that could land hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the TMT. Read more
The University of Hawaii Hoku Kea telescope is one step closer to being decommissioned following the publishing of final environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact documents. Read more
State House and Senate lawmakers Friday approved a final version of a bill that would create an independent authority to assume management of Mauna Kea from the University of Hawaii following a five-year transition period. Read more
Mauna Kea would be administered jointly by the University of Hawaii and a new authority under the latest version of a controversial bill that aims to transform the management of Hawaii’s tallest mountain. Read more
Twenty-nine elders who were arrested on Mauna Kea during the 2019 protest to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope had their cases dismissed Friday in District Court. Read more
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