Test positivity rates have been climbing steadily in recent weeks, as Oahu’s had before there was a sudden surge in late July.

New data released this week from the health department is mostly repackaged information already available on the state dashboard.

Experts talked to Civil Beat about how to make sense of available data during a recent Hawaii Variable event.

Despite a troubling rise in the number of cases, the public does not seem to have an appropriate sense of urgency, an epidemic tracking expert says.

Mobility data gives us a clearer picture of just how much people have been moving around during the pandemic.

Despite the pandemic, this could be the year that election participation starts to improve.

A recent study found that COVID-19 data tracking in the U.S. is incomplete and inaccessible. Hawaii is no exception.

Most of them are at the Manoa campus, working up to 20 hours per week and also receiving tuition waivers.

Civil Beat fills out its salary database with thousands of City and County of Honolulu workers, including those caught up in a federal probe.

Civil Beat’s public employee salary database now includes 22,395 employees of the Hawaii Department of Education.