Honolulu

Honolulu Mayor Signs Bill To Limit Waikīkī Street Festivals Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Honolulu Mayor Signs Bill To Limit Waikīkī Street Festivals

Frequent festivals had caused all-day road closures, irking many residents for years.

The Civil Beat Interview: Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

The Civil Beat Interview: Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi

The city and county’s chief executive talks about the landfill, homelessness, the police commission and more.

Shootz! Photo Essay: Mixing Ponytails And Pigskin With Aloha Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Shootz! Photo Essay: Mixing Ponytails And Pigskin With Aloha

Hawai’i becomes the 14th state to officially sanction girls high school flag football as a varsity sport.

It Took 8 Pedestrians Struck At This Intersection For The City To Act David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

It Took 8 Pedestrians Struck At This Intersection For The City To Act

Residents asked the city to make the intersection safer after a woman was killed there in 2019, but the city said no changes were needed. Since then, more people have been hit.

Fix It! Temporary Road Plates Are Still Rattling Drivers Six Years Later David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Fix It! Temporary Road Plates Are Still Rattling Drivers Six Years Later

Installed after a 2019 gas leak, steel plates on Kalākaua Avenue are to be removed soon — after yet another delay.

To Sell More Housing in West Oʻahu, This Developer Is Raising Prices Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

To Sell More Housing in West Oʻahu, This Developer Is Raising Prices

In Kalaeloa, affordable housing units aren’t a lot cheaper than market-rate units. So the developer plans to raise the price of market-rate units.

Blangiardi Outlines Plans For Safer Oʻahu In State Of The City Speech David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Blangiardi Outlines Plans For Safer Oʻahu In State Of The City Speech

New facilities are in the works to improve public safety and better address homelessness.

Fix It! Watch Your Step, You May Want To Cut This Corner Jeremy Hay

Fix It! Watch Your Step, You May Want To Cut This Corner

The city owns the sidewalk but a state agency is charged with fixing it in this location.

Hawaiʻi Woman Arrested In Abuse Death Of 11-Year-Old Adopted Daughter Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Hawaiʻi Woman Arrested In Abuse Death Of 11-Year-Old Adopted Daughter

The child, who had been adopted just two months earlier, had significant injuries and her 2023 death was ruled a homicide.