A moment when body language said everything in a photograph: March 19, when the Maui Police Commission re-instated Chief John ...

A recent report shows that in the last two years the child welfare system's performance has fallen in nearly every category.

The fast-fading year showed us how quickly weight shifts — and how it lands on communities already stretched by cost, ...

There is no real consumer protection for kūpuna facing selling their units, draining their savings or taking on debt.

As a Civil Beat reader, you know how important it is for journalists to have the freedom, resources and ability to pursue ...

Economic worries, the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history and a chaotic tsunami evacuation kept residents on their toes ...

In 2012, lawmakers tried to get a handle on unexpectedly high pensions by billing state and county employers. In most cases, ...

“Tom Coffman was one of the first haole writers to take a modern Native Hawaiian scholar seriously and insert her writing and ...

The state probate court must first approve a plan to make the school tuition-free starting in the 2026 school year.

The number of Chuukese and Spanish speakers in DOE schools has been rising, while schools are seeing fewer students fluent in ...

If Hawaiʻi wants to remain a leader in pretrial justice, it must close the gap between what judges decide and what the system ...

Garcia attributed the level of successful recovery in part to the group’s ability to respond faster than in the past. When a ...