The short-handed panel desperately needs more members, but a lawsuit is pending over the county's selection process.

The former state legislator complained he is being singled out by the commission and that his case has been mishandled.

Fire and emergency personnel are putting new protocols in place for responding to wildfires, but are also warning that people ...

Owners have the right to expect that malfunctioning common elements, or association-related damages to individual units be ...

Naka Nathaniel is an Editor At Large for Civil Beat. You can reach him at nnathaniel@civilbeat.org. A lot more firearms are registered in the islands these days, but gun deaths remain low. As a young ...

House Education Committee Chair Roy Takumi proposed a constitutional amendment to shift Hawaii’s Board of Education from elected to appointed. Voter turnout in BOE elec ...

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Director Tommy Johnson has been warning that the state needs to fix its run-down correctional facilities or face lawsuits over deteriorating conditions. It ...

Biki's ridership has been steadily declining over the past few years, and its leadership wants to reinvest in the system to ...

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The Department of Education wants to include financial literacy in students' individual transition plans for career planning.

Access to water is still in flux, but the Maui modular home housing project now has county approval to open 16 of 88 units.

Breathing through a snorkel tube is similar to pinching your nose and breathing in through your mouth. The resistance is ...