Honolulu wants to plant 100,000 trees in the next few years to help provide shelter from rising temperatures and a growing urban heat island.

Marcia and Buna Leialoha felt they had no choice but to offer homes to those evicted from a nearby temporary homeless camp, but their landlord thinks otherwise.

Projects aiming to provide housing or services to low-income residents are meeting resistance from communities that don’t want them in their neighborhoods.

The plan is to provide around-the-clock police coverage in the downtown district, but Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s administration gave few details.

Without permanent addresses or internet access, the many homeless people who are eligible will face barriers to claiming money that would make a difference.

The idea was to offer help to homeless people in lieu of criminal charges. Instead, HPD increased the number of citations it handed out.

Musician Paula Fuga handled an ugly moment beautifully.

It will take a lot of tools to solve homelessness in Hawaii. Enforcement of city laws is one of those tools.

A Civil Beat analysis of court data on HPD’s pandemic enforcement shows homeless people account for nearly 25% of pandemic violations despite making up less than 1% of the population.