Lawmakers have been vacillating over how to handle weed consumption in the islands since the late 1960s. State Rep. John Carroll was fed up with Hawaii’s outdated marijuana laws. The Republican ...

Richard Wiens is an editor at large for Civil Beat. You can reach him by email at rwiens@civilbeat.org. Everybody loved this measure as it flew through the Legislature, but it still died ...

Proponents say the spread of disinformation via artificial intelligence threatens the democratic process. In June, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign disseminated deepfake images ...

The National Headliner contest is one of the oldest and most prestigious journalism competitions. The staff of Honolulu Civil Beat has won a 2024 National Headliner award for coverage of the ...

Amid a search for a buyer, The Maui News slashes its print edition to once weekly. The Maui News announced plans to slash its daily print edition to once a week, shifting the island’s 124-year ...

Colorful carp streamers, April’s full moon, artificial intelligence and a call for action kept our visual journalists on their toes all week. Civil Beat provides essential information when you ...

Members of the Kalihi-Palama board said they were upset by what turned out to be a man breaking a glass window, sparking a conversation about safety. One evening in March, members of the Kalihi ...

Members of the House and Senate also agreed to create a new position for a state fire marshal to promote fire safety. Lawmakers voted Thursday to approve two bills packed with more than $800 ...

Brian Black is the executive director of the Public First Law Center. Lawmakers advanced bills to make it easier for citizens to understand what our government is doing, and to get involved.

A spokesman cited unspecified privacy concerns when rejecting a Civil Beat request to reveal the names. A Navy team that has been investigating the cause of ongoing water quality complaints around ...

Peter Savio, a private affordable housing developer, has been in Hawaii’s real estate business for 60 years. He was born in Hilo and raised on Oahu, and he is a graduate of Saint Louis School ...

The nonprofit organization, which provides disaster relief and trains future aviators, has been operating at a deficit since 2019. More than a thousand feet in the air recently, a trained pilot ...