Hawaiʻi State Government

High-Need Foster Kids Now Have An Alternative To Staying In State Offices Getty Images/iStockphoto

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.

‘Not A Boondoggle’: Lawmakers Get $300K For Travel, Destination Unknown 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.

World-Traveling Hawaiʻi Bureaucrat Arranged $30M In Tech Contracts 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.

Hawaiʻi’s Intoxicating Hemp Market Has Gone Up In Smoke 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.

Betting On Hawaiʻi Politics Is Legal Despite State’s Gambling Ban 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.

Public Begins To Weigh In On Offshore LNG Proposal 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.

Governor Pressured To Bring Hawaiʻi Troops Back From Washington, D.C.  AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

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.

Influential Energy Researcher Quietly Backed By Big Money Climate Group File Photo

Influential Energy Researcher Quietly Backed By Big Money Climate Group

Governor criticizes energy expert as biased, others defend him as sound and scrupulous.

Campaign Spending Commission Files Civil Complaint Against Sylvia Luke 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.