Hawaiʻi

Twice Torched Bird Watch Overlook Remains Shut Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Twice Torched Bird Watch Overlook Remains Shut

The popular birdwatching spot in ʻEwa Beach had been closed, then reopened for barely a year before it was closed down again last August. Trespassing brings a hefty fine.

Hawaiʻi After-School Programs In Limbo Due To Trump Funding Freeze Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Hawaiʻi After-School Programs In Limbo Due To Trump Funding Freeze

The state Department of Education told after-school programs to start the year as normal and is making contingency plans for if millions in frozen education grants are never awarded.

Hawaiʻi Braces For Cuts That Could Strip Medicaid From Tens Of Thousands Special to Honolulu Civil Beat Ronen Zilberman

Hawaiʻi Braces For Cuts That Could Strip Medicaid From Tens Of Thousands

Community health clinics offer a window into how the state might be impacted by hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts expected in the coming years.

Lawmakers’ Plan To Give $50M To Nonprofits May Be Unconstitutional David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Lawmakers’ Plan To Give $50M To Nonprofits May Be Unconstitutional

Legislators passed a bill late last session to dole out the money to help organizations hit with federal budget cuts.

Native Hawaiian Man Faces Longer Sentence For Hate Crime Against White Man  AP Photo/Jennifer Kelleher/2024

Native Hawaiian Man Faces Longer Sentence For Hate Crime Against White Man 

Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in 2023 for attacking a white man who tried to move into a remote Maui community in 2014.

Burden For Preventing Drownings In Hawaiʻi Falls On Counties — And Residents Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Burden For Preventing Drownings In Hawaiʻi Falls On Counties — And Residents

Ocean safety efforts are left up to individual counties, leading to big disparities in drowning prevention across the islands. The state does little to help them. 

Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million

A state court will decide soon whether to allow one of Hawaiʻi’s oldest and largest charitable trusts to settle claims related to the fires that destroyed Lahaina.

Pacific Tuna Fleets Pushed To Lift Ban In Waters They Barely Fished Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2025

Pacific Tuna Fleets Pushed To Lift Ban In Waters They Barely Fished

The vessels hardly spent any time right outside a marine protected area before its expansion, but fishing leaders and managers say times have changed.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama

Haraguchi-Nakayama is a sixth generation taro farmer in Hanalei for her familyʻs farm, Hanalei Taro.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Linda Paik Moriarty

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Linda Paik Moriarty

Paik Moriarty is the author of Lei Niʻihau.