The Charter Commission held a first hearing Monday of a proposal to create a food security fund using property tax revenue.

An effort underway to bring the death rate down involves outreach, special facilities that offer medical care and shelter, and a controversial new law.

Policymakers say it’s time to reassess a decades-old law that leaves the state’s consumer watchdog agency without teeth to protect tenants.

Among dozens of proposed amendments that the Charter Commission will consider putting on the ballot next fall is one underscoring a basic need: to eat.

UPDATE: New details emerged on Saturday in a video provided to Civil Beat of the incident that led to the arrest. The squalid conditions and violent outbreaks led the state representative for downtown to call for changes to Hawaiʻi landlord-tenant law.

State lawmakers distributed more than $49 million to alleviate federal funding cuts. About a third of the nonprofits selected were not directly impacted by those cuts, but served people who were.

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

The report was produced at a time when food security was bad in Hawaiʻi. But now, advocates say, it’s even worse.

Remaining residents were terrified when a group of men in black clothing armed with a pistol showed up last week. Today they head back to court.

The state and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs are stepping up beginning today but the fight over SNAP continues during the federal shutdown.