Yet another state audit takes the Department of Health to task over its deposit beverage program. It's time for the ...

For decades, one of the state's main agencies to help the public has been understaffed and lacking in authority.

Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and ...

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This is all part of a one-year celebration of the park’s 10th anniversary, also launched by Ogura, which started with a ...

Developers of much-needed affordable housing are supposed to get permits approved or denied within three months. It's taking ...

Honolulu doesn’t funnel social services directly through its transit systems, city spokesperson Ian Scheuring said. It’s more ...

The number of residents who die each year is surprising, even to lifeguards. And the danger is not limited to inexperienced ...

Last month, Civil Beat published a Community Voice that called for the governor to veto the passage of Senate Bill 1322, ...

The former chief of psychiatry files suit, saying severe understaffing is contributing to a dangerous work environment.

State police want to use license plate readers and drones to fight crime on Hawaiian homelands. Futuristic law enforcement ...