Correction for Friday, April 19, 2024

An article published Tuesday incorrectly stated the date of the shutdown of Hamakua Energy. The power producer went offline on Feb. 13. A Hawaiian Electric statement quoted in the article was also made in response to a Monday Public Utilities Commission order, and not a related letter by Oahu lawmakers. The Tribune-Herald apologizes for the error.

Murder charge anticipated in death of infant

Neither police nor prosecutors are identifying the suspect in the murder of a 5-month-old boy on New Year’s Eve 2022, but all publicly available evidence points to the mother, Yasmine Michelle Lilia Butterfield, who also is known as Lilia Alameda.

Inside the late-night parties where Hawaii politicians raked in money

HONOLULU — For the better part of a decade, some of Hawaii’s most powerful people huddled together at late-night parties in a cramped second-floor office where lobbyists and executives seeking government contracts lined up to drop cash and checks into a metal lockbox.