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High-Need Foster Kids Now Have An Alternative To Staying In State Offices
Officials say they hope a new Oʻahu home will ensure hard-to-place foster children don’t need to sleep in government offices or hotels in the future.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
‘Not A Boondoggle’: Lawmakers Get $300K For Travel, Destination Unknown
There will be a trip to study transit-oriented development, but no one can say exactly who’s going, where or when.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
World-Traveling Hawaiʻi Bureaucrat Arranged $30M In Tech Contracts
A Hawaiʻi Department of Law Enforcement official identified tech companies that impressed him at conferences about policing and surveillance. He later got a job with one of them.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024
Hawaiʻi’s Intoxicating Hemp Market Has Gone Up In Smoke
The Hawaiʻi Department of Health has snuffed out sales of mood-altering smokes and gummies derived from hemp.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024
Betting On Hawaiʻi Politics Is Legal Despite State’s Gambling Ban
Users can now wager on when indicted Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke may resign on the prediction market app Kalshi, which is not covered by Hawaiʻi’s gambling law.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
Pay To Play: Political Corruption Investigations In Hawaiʻi Over The Years
Investigations began in 2018. Here’s the rundown.
David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023
Public Begins To Weigh In On Offshore LNG Proposal
The public comment period is the first step in the pre-review of JERA Co.’s proposal, pitched as a fossil-fuel bridge to a future of all-renewable resources.
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Governor Pressured To Bring Hawaiʻi Troops Back From Washington, D.C.
Local and national groups have sent letters to the Democratic governor urging him to recall the troops so that they aren’t deployed to police civilians in the district.
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Influential Energy Researcher Quietly Backed By Big Money Climate Group
Governor criticizes energy expert as biased, others defend him as sound and scrupulous.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Campaign Spending Commission Files Civil Complaint Against Sylvia Luke
The lieutenant governor is alleged to have mishandled election funds and filed false reports.