A state court will decide soon whether to allow one of Hawaiʻi's oldest and largest charitable trusts to settle claims ...

Even if Hawai‘i’s residents didn’t know the statistics, they already know the conclusion. Unaffordable housing has led us to ...

Nearly three dozen people died trying to escape the Kuhua Camp neighborhood, where the county is now working to extend and ...

Laurie Tochiki, a Hawaiʻi family law attorney and former executive director of EPIC ʻOhana, will serve as interim CEO.

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Hawaiʻi has the second highest rate of resident drownings in the nation, but there’s been no serious statewide effort to address the problem. Instead, ocean safety efforts are left up to individual ...

Dog walkers complain that a group of young Chuukese runners isn't sharing Makiki District Park. The coach says he's trying to ...

The state has finally started dredging, but it shouldn't have taken this long to restore a heartbeat of the community.

The University of Hawaiʻi will need to get creative with renewable energy for the Mānoa campus, where the challenge is ...

The vessels hardly spent any time right outside a marine protected area before its expansion, but fishing leaders and managers say times have changed.

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On Kauaʻi, job applications for chief of police are down 68% as a department with sinking morale and recruitment and ...