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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Linda Paik Moriarty
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Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Kalani Vierra
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Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Coppin Colburn
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Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Daryl Kaneshiro
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