Civil Beat reporter Yoohyun Jung and photographer Cory Lum visited six state correctional facilities last week. No surprise, the facilities are overcrowded and seriously in need of repair.

UPDATED: Some Native Hawaiians think construction of a new telescope will desecrate a sacred site that already holds 13 other telescopes.

It will be months before the key route across east Oahu is completely reopened after rockslides last month, and these images show you why.

The mother of all false alerts preceded very real disasters that flooded Kauai with rainwater and the Big Island with lava. Then came the threat of Hurricane Lane.

NOAA displayed tons of plastic and other debris collected in the remote Northwest Hawaii Islands, where the trash threatens wildlife and coral.

On the 175th anniversary of the end of British control of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a sculpture of Kamehameha III is dedicated at Thomas Square.

Civil Beat photographer Cory Lum spent a day in the heart of the Kilauea eruption zone where at least 26 homes were destroyed.

When the gavel fell on the 2018 session, it marked the end of the line for several lawmakers in their current posts.

Motorists enjoying ocean and mountain scenes frequently happen upon another common feature in the islands: junked-out cars.

Corals spawn tiny bundles of eggs and sperm on moonless summer nights. Scientists work using red head lamps.