The latest update to Civil Beat’s Public Salary Database reflects major public-sector wage increases across Hawaiʻi — but not for everyone.

More than 800 projects are waiting to clear the first hurdle in the permitting process.

After falling out with Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi a year and a half ago, former Ocean Safety Chief John Titchen is interested in getting his job back.

UPDATE: New details emerged on Saturday in a video provided to Civil Beat of the incident that led to the arrest. The squalid conditions and violent outbreaks led the state representative for downtown to call for changes to Hawaiʻi landlord-tenant law.

City officials have been unable to serve violation notices to building managers, who also have repeatedly failed to show up for court dates.

Scores of similar sketchy crosswalks have been removed, but this one connects city landmarks in a bustling downtown corridor.

A Honolulu park slide was removed and its entrance boarded up earlier this year. It’s still unclear when it’ll be replaced.

Medical building patients who had to climb the stairs express relief

Ticketing of Honolulu’s homeless population ballooned after the mayor pledged to get 1,000 people off the street in a year, but the effort tends to involve familiar faces.

It took years for the city to set up a program helping businesses that were negatively impacted by rail construction. Now, that program is underutilized and insufficient, business owners say.