{"id":553347,"date":"2026-03-30T01:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553347\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:35:24","slug":"all-clear-given-at-state-capitol-after-bomb-threat-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553347\/","title":{"rendered":"All clear given at State Capitol after bomb threat scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Hawaii State Capitol and nearby streets were reopened Saturday after being evacuated while police investigated a bomg threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Around 9:50 a.m., Honolulu police assisted state sheriffs with an evacuation after state Department of Law Enforcement canine units and the HPD Special Services Division responded to a possible explosive in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nearly three hours later, Honolulu police released a statement saying:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) and the Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) have reopened all roadways, as well the Hawaii State Capitol, following an earlier evacuation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Punchbowl, Richards, Miller and Beretania streets near the Capitol were closed off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said there was no longer a threat to the public and the planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/03\/28\/thousands-expected-no-dictators-protests-across-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/03\/28\/thousands-expected-no-dictators-protests-across-the-state\/\">\u2018No Dictators\u2019 protest<\/a> will be moving back to the capitol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Hawaii State Capitol and nearby streets were reopened Saturday after being evacuated while police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,28972,36885,3,93621,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-553347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bomb-threat","tag-evacuation","tag-news","tag-state-capitol","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}