Economic Inequality

Immigrant Lahaina Fire Survivors Terrified By ICE Presence Erin Nolan/Civil Beat/2025

Immigrant Lahaina Fire Survivors Terrified By ICE Presence

The federal immigration enforcement agency was in West Maui reportedly searching for a non-resident.

Maui Balances Compassion With Fire Safety In Homeless Encampment Sweeps

Maui Balances Compassion With Fire Safety In Homeless Encampment Sweeps

County leaders say they are prioritizing the community as a whole but critics feel it’s scapegoating.

How Do Hawaiʻi Residents Handle The Heat? Here’s What You Told Us (Leilani Combs/Civil Beat/2025)

How Do Hawaiʻi Residents Handle The Heat? Here’s What You Told Us

Rising temperatures have Hawaiʻi residents searching for solutions in a state where nearly half of us don’t have A/C.

Has City Homeless Services Program Lost Its Way? Audit Will Check Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Has City Homeless Services Program Lost Its Way? Audit Will Check

The program has strayed from its emphasis on social work, according to people who value the program but call it ineffective.

Maui Weighs Kinder Approach To Homelessness Amid Encampment Crackdowns Leo Azambuja/Civil Beat/2024

Maui Weighs Kinder Approach To Homelessness Amid Encampment Crackdowns

Some council members want to set a clear legal policy for the administration to follow.

Honolulu Immigrant Tracked Via Money Transfers Sentenced, Turned Over To ICE David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Honolulu Immigrant Tracked Via Money Transfers Sentenced, Turned Over To ICE

The Mexican citizen had pleaded guilty and was convicted of illegally reentering the United States.

Nonprofits Want To Help Maui Fire Victims — If They Can Reach Them Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Nonprofits Want To Help Maui Fire Victims — If They Can Reach Them

Limited communications and continued grief have made it more challenging for nonprofits to connect with survivors who could most benefit from their services.

Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest Jeremy Hay/Civil Beat/2025

Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest

As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.

Struggling And Lost On Oʻahu’s Streets, Woman Says Yes To Help Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Struggling And Lost On Oʻahu’s Streets, Woman Says Yes To Help

A psychiatrist set out to find a 33-year-old Hilo woman who battles homelessness and addiction after a failed medical intervention.

Hilo Family Fights To Bring A Missing Woman Home From Oʻahu’s Streets Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hilo Family Fights To Bring A Missing Woman Home From Oʻahu’s Streets

A 33-year-old woman with mental struggles disappeared after she was medevaced from Hilo to The Queen’s Medical Center. Then she ended up on the unfamiliar streets of Honolulu.