Residents now must wait until next year to tackle pressing problems like protection for immigrants, funding for nonprofits and finding new revenue streams.

Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and advocacy nonprofit. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily ...

Legislative leaders and the attorney general back away from a potential bribery case even though federal prosecutors are ...

The state Elections Commission has gone off the rails. Lawmakers and others have some ideas for fixing it but it won't be ...

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Hawaiʻi doesn’t need a gondola. Hawaiʻi doesn’t need to be the Asia-Pacific center for stadium sports. Hawai’i isn’t going to ...

This one might test your brain a bit more than usual.

: New details emerged on Saturday in a video provided to Civil Beat of the incident that led to the arrest. The squalid ...

State lawmakers distributed more than $49 million to alleviate federal funding cuts. About a third of the nonprofits selected ...

Kaua‘i’s six-month search for its next top cop may come to an end Friday when the county Police Commission takes up its final ...

The council has until the end of Tuesday to decide who should succeed the late Tasha Kama or the mayor gets to pick.

City officials have been unable to serve violation notices to building managers, who also have repeatedly failed to show up ...