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Kea'ahala Road connects Kāneʻohe town to major state facilities, but it's been 20 years since it was properly repaved, and sidewalks are impassable for many.

The county's chief executive and head of the Maui Office of Recovery discuss federal funding for the rebuilding of Lahaina ...

The affordable rentals in Kailua-Kona were supposed to be ready in 2024 and cost $50 million. The developer now hopes to ...

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Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and ...

The University of Hawaiʻi once hosted a political provocateur under the banner of diversity. Here's what happened.

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ...

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It was the “worst-of-all-worlds election system,” I was told by Jenny Lee, deputy director of the Coalition of Communities of ...

The Hawaiʻi Acrofest 2025 fesitval brought practitioners to Waialua from as far away as Australia last weekend.