A story recounted by Hawaiʻi’s final king bears a message: True welcome is not erasure. It’s exchange.

In Puna, the houses still stand. But something gets hollowed out when no one’s home.

Only about half the state’s public high schools offer the training teens are required to receive before getting a license.

This is what happens when two political opportunists try to manipulate the facts for their own selfish reasons.

There are good reasons to oppose a North Shore tramway, but not all projects deserve automatic rejection.

There’s no trash pickup or mail service and sometimes no power. But there’s plenty of rainwater if you can catch it.

There are rules governing these pools of money, but what happens when the restrictions are ignored?

When disaster strikes, we’re often left to wonder why people don’t evacuate or take precautions. But we’re not the ones who live there.

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

“Place Names of Hawaiʻi” provides an introductory grasp of the islands’ culture and mythology.