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The CEO of Maui Economic Opportunity acknowledged the nonprofit had trouble getting its arms around the federal program, ...

In my three months here, we have welcomed several new staff members, including Managing Editor Jonathan Martin, and launched ...

Doctors in Hawaiʻi are in short supply and the problem is most severe in Maui County where last year’s wildfires worsened the ...

President Joe Biden met up with Maui Mayor Richard Bissen after the August 2023 Lahaina fire. When the drama over a potential ...

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Yet, some still dismiss the integration of sea level rise into government policies and regulations as merely an ...

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

ACLU of Hawaii calls for an independent review of suicides in state prisons and jails. An inmate death at Halawa Correctional Facility early Thursday morning is believed to be the fifth suicide in ...

The tenants had been at risk of losing their homes after the Central Y said it could no longer afford to subsidize their rents. Seven long-term tenants of the Central YMCA in Honolulu will get to ...

Carolers, therapy dogs, martial artists and the arrival of winter swells on the North Shore. Civil Beat’s reporting has helped paint a more complete picture of Hawaiʻi with stories that you won ...