Hawaiʻi

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.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Kalani Vierra

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Kalani Vierra

Vierra is chief lifeguard of Kauaʻi Fire’s Ocean Safety Bureau, co-founder of the Kauaʻi Lifeguard Association and a former multi-world champion in tandem surfing.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Coppin Colburn

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Coppin Colburn

Coppin is a producer of Ahi Lele Fire Show at Anaina Hou and former hotelier.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Daryl Kaneshiro

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Daryl Kaneshiro

Get to know this farmer, rancher and former Kauaʻi County Council member.