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He’s held the job longer than anyone else in state history and been at the center of controversy nearly every election cycle.

The ACLU of Hawaiʻi has documented what happens when they’re enforced: people lose their belongings, face growing fines, get ...

Crossword puzzles are a fun way to wrap up the weekend.

Politics, policy and public affairs as seen through the eyes of our political cartoonist.

David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa and the author of many works about criminal justice in Japan and the United States. The Honolulu Police Commission has a ...

Strafed in the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, the mansion was home to the manager of what was once Hawaiʻi's biggest sugar ...

There is no tree more emblematic of Hawai‘i than the niu, the coconut tree. Towering and graceful, its swaying fronds set the ...

For decades, bulldozers would simply flatten the houses of lifelong residents of Gay & Robinson’s historic plantation ...

The program has strayed from its emphasis on social work, according to people who value the program but call it ineffective.

As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy ...

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