The Hawaiʻi Ledger Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026

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Coverage

The Ledger reports the record where it can read it. Depth differs by county, because the governments publish differently. This page says, county by county, what is read, how, and what is missing. To see what is on the record near one address, use the address lookup.

Agendas read before the meeting: partly.

WhatFromHow
City Council and committee agendas, bills, resolutions, committee reportsHonolulu Legislative Documents (hnldoc)read by script each time the site is built
Zoning and Planning Committee agendas, item by item (by script when every numbered line parses; otherwise in a session)Honolulu Legislative Documentsread by script each time the site is built
Applications open for public inputDepartment of Planning and Permitting's public-input mapread by script each time the site is built
Building permits, 1999 to July 1, 2025City open data (static file)read in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Neighborhood board meeting schedulesNeighborhood Commission Office board pagesread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Neighborhood board agendas, item by itemNeighborhood Commission Office email listsread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Incidents reported to police, by block and typeHonolulu Police Department, city open data (vg88-5rn5)read by script each time the site is built
Everyday reports to the city (311), counted by ZIP and typeCity open data (jdy7-ftwe)read by script each time the site is built
Monthly resale medians, sales, days on market and inventoryHonolulu Board of REALTORS® monthly reportread by script each time the site is built
OIA championship history, sport advisors and admissionThe league's own sport pages (oiasports.com)read by script each time the site is built

Missing: Neighborhood board agendas are not yet in the record: they arrive only by the Neighborhood Commission Office's email lists, and the Ledger's reader is ready for them. 29 of 33 board schedules come from undated stored copies of the board pages; each page says which. Permits issued after June 30, 2025 are in HNL Build, which publishes no open dataset.

Maui County

County of Maui

Agendas read before the meeting: partly.

WhatFromHow
County Council and committee meetings and agenda itemsLegistar web APIread by script each time the site is built
Planning commission agendas (Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi), item by itemCounty Agenda Centerread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Planning director's permit reportsCounty Agenda Centerread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Board and commission agenda postingsCounty Agenda Center RSSnot read

Missing: The county's website has refused automated reads since Sept. 19, 2026, so planning commission agendas are not being read. No permit data: the county's permit system (MAPPS) has no proven public read. No police incident data yet (no open feed found).

Hawaiʻi Island

County of Hawaiʻi

Agendas read before the meeting: yes.

WhatFromHow
County Council and committee meetings on recordGranicus archive (RSS)read by script each time the site is built
Council and committee agendas, item by itemGranicus archiveread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Meetings aheadGranicus upcoming listread by script each time the site is built
Leeward and Windward Planning Commission agendas, item by itemThe county's legal notices in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Todayread by script each time the site is built
Planning applications accepted, each monthThe county's legal notices (Hawaiʻi County Code § 25-2-3(g))read by script each time the site is built

Missing: The county's planning site refuses automated reads; its commissions' agendas come from its legal notices instead. The council archive lists meetings once recorded. No permit data in open form. No police incident data yet (no open feed found).

Agendas read before the meeting: yes.

WhatFromHow
County Council, committees and Planning Commission on recordGranicus archive (RSS)read by script each time the site is built
Meetings aheadGranicus upcoming listread by script each time the site is built
Planning Commission agendas, item by itemGranicus archive (scanned; read by OCR and checked by eye)read in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Planning Commission hearings, matter by matterThe county's legal notices in The Garden Islandread by script each time the site is built

Missing: Planning Commission agendas are scans; each is read by hand after OCR. No permit data in open form. No police incident data yet (no open feed found).

State boards

State boards

Agendas read before the meeting: yes.

WhatFromHow
Meetings of seven land and water boardsState public meetings calendar (RSS)read by script each time the site is built
Their agendas, item by itemAgenda PDFs attached to each noticeread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
The Environmental Notice: environmental assessments and impact statements, SMA minor permits, shoreline certifications, federal coastal reviewsState Office of Planning and Sustainable Development (PDF, twice a month)read in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
County resale medians (all four counties)Hawaiʻi REALTORS® statewide reportread in an editing session, then entered in the source's own words
Public schools and their attendance areasState of Hawaiʻi GIS (Department of Education layers)read by script each time the site is built
University of Hawaiʻi schedules and results, all sportsThe athletic department's own calendar fileread by script each time the site is built
Headlines from Hawaiʻi newsrooms (link only, no article text)Each outlet's own public feedread by script each time the site is built

Missing: The Legislature (convenes in January) is not yet read. High school scores are not published (ScoringLive and the Star-Advertiser follow that beat); the OIA's championship record is.

The last scripted read

2026-09-20T07:20-10:00 (Hawaiʻi time):

Where a source refuses automated reads, the Ledger does not work around it; it reads by hand, asks, or goes without, and says so here. The watcher's own health is on /status. This page is written by the Ledger and updated with each change in coverage; last reviewed Sept. 19, 2026.