After years of budget increases as the city emerged from the pandemic, this year the mayor proposed a lower budget than last ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's policy of personally reviewing large grants held up a request to renew emergency ...

Rather than relying on a top-heavy state department to dictate operations, individual schools are granted full autonomy over ...

Hale Maluhia provides emergency shelter to vulnerable women but has never been inspected by county fire inspectors. Staff say the units are safe.

The former Hawaiʻi congresswoman was an outspoken critic of U.S.-led regime change wars. Then she went to work for Trump.

But ending one extreme sentence is not the finish line. Hawaiʻi still has people serving very long adult sentences for crimes ...

Karen Awana is a former member of the Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives and a Waiʻanae Coast community advocate with over two decades of experience in public policy and community development.

In May, just days before a scheduled hearing, the USDA announced it would restore its climate webpages. At that point, “we had essentially won,” said Peter Lehner, managing attorney at Earthjustice, ...

Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole is probing the department for evidence of what he believes to be a 'shadow policy' of favoring ...

The third Maui County planning director in three years plans to prioritize post-wildfire rebuilding and tackle complex local ...

To raise revenue for its redevelopment, officials of the Hālawa arena want to join the legions of mainland sports venues named for corporate sponsors.

Elena Bryant comes from a long line of subsistence and commercial food fishers from the Island of Oʻahu. She is a Native Hawaiian attorney specializing in Native Hawaiian and environmental law. Reef ...