As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.

The employee was paid not to work for years as officials mulled over his “impossible” mileage reports. He stopped receiving a city paycheck a few weeks after a Civil Beat story.

Golf courses, big resorts and the Marine Corps Base on the Windward side of Oʻahu top the list of the state's biggest water-hungry consumers.

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The nonprofit representing the Wisconsin plaintiffs helped secure a landmark settlement in Hawaiʻi with the case Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation.

Edward Gravierʻs descendants never knew he sailed to Hawaiʻi in the late-1870s. Then his great-great-grandson found him on the Civil Beat website.

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The funds won’t be released until early next year, but the transportation department is looking at ways to expedite processes so work can begin within four months of receipt.

The PV system was installed on the roof of the 45,000-square-foot building as part of a three-year, $28 million renovation project that began in 2006. County officials said at the time the ...

Neither the Legislature nor the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has shown any real commitment to decarceration.

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Kahoʻolawe was bombed into ruin, and even after cleanup, large areas remain unsafe. At Mākua Military Reservation on Oʻahu, lawsuits halted live-fire training in 2004 after evidence of cultural ...