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The state’s removal of two structures on the mountain ignored traditional and customary rights laws.

FEMA says the agency is required to review disaster assistance payments to ensure the money doesn’t duplicate other assistance, wasn’t inappropriately spent or was provided in error.

Like everywhere else in the state, Hawaii County is looking for solutions to the increasingly costly problem of people leaving their junkers on the side of the road.

They say some burial sites may remain undiscovered in the 1920s-era plantation graveyard near where a residential development is proposed.

Hawaii Island Parks and Recreation workers said they are cleaning up Mo’oheau Park.

The diversity of Hawaii’s public schools student population isn’t matched by the makeup of the state’s teachers.

You might think a brand new black sand beach would be pristine. But microplastics have already been detected at Pohoiki in Lower Puna.

A Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner is suing Hilo Medical Center, where he says a technician removed his sacred necklace that had been in his family for generations.

Millions of dollars are being spent to promote non-volcanic attractions, but some of them aren’t equipped to handle more visitors.

The facility shut down and was damaged during last year’s volcanic eruption. Some residents would prefer it stay closed.