The high court struck down a state-ordered election in House District 43 resulting from a lauhala basket tiebreaker. The ...

The carpenters union is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn a boring ballot proposition into one that might get ...

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Transform Hawaiʻi Government will wrap up its work at the end of the year. But the effort to modernize the state's technology ...

Why aren't we similarly obsessed with other "forbidden" parts of Hawaiʻi -- such as those fenced off by billionaires?

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

Bill Kumagai is executive director of Transform Hawai‘i Government, a nonprofit that has been primarily funded by the Omidyar ...

Hawaiʻi Wildlife Rehabilitator David Arakawa holds a stick from which a manu-o-Kū grabs a smelt in their aviary at the ...

The ruling is unlikely to affect Hawaiʻi, since state use of the federal SAVE program is voluntary. But voting rights ...

The County Council would now need a supermajority vote to allow thousands of apartment-zoned units to keep operating as short-term rentals. Following more than two hours of passionate public testimony ...

Hawaiʻi has suffered Kona lows, two hurricanes and an earthquake since March. Another storm is expected this weekend.

With the Maui County mayor’s race one of the most closely watched in the state, Civil Beat asked the two candidates a few ...