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School Councils Are Supposed To Be The Local School Boards In Hawaii. But They’re Hit Or Miss Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

School Councils Are Supposed To Be The Local School Boards In Hawaii. But They’re Hit Or Miss

A key part of local school oversight and parent engagement is left largely up to individual schools, with wildly varied results.

‘Forever Chemicals’ Have Been Found In Hawaii’s Environment. Now What?  Yoohyun Jung/Civil Beat/2021

‘Forever Chemicals’ Have Been Found In Hawaii’s Environment. Now What? 

Increased testing for PFAS may reveal a problem Hawaii is not prepared to deal with. 

Big Island Police Shoot And Kill Man In Kailua-Kona Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Big Island Police Shoot And Kill Man In Kailua-Kona

No body camera footage exists because the plainclothes officers involved weren’t wearing cameras.

Hilo Was Easy, Honolulu Was Hell: How Prince Kuhio Rebuilt Hawaii David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

Hilo Was Easy, Honolulu Was Hell: How Prince Kuhio Rebuilt Hawaii

Kuhio’s legacy includes lighthouses, breakwaters, roads and parks and helping get women the vote.

City Measure To Restrict Concealed Guns In Some Areas Moves Ahead After Council Vote Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

City Measure To Restrict Concealed Guns In Some Areas Moves Ahead After Council Vote

Questions about how the law would be fully enacted have not yet been addressed.

New Punahou Program Mixes In Hip-Hop To Get Hawaii’s Students Active In Civics David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

New Punahou Program Mixes In Hip-Hop To Get Hawaii’s Students Active In Civics

The details of how the initiative will be rolled out in the state’s public schools are still being ironed out.

‘Place Them Back Upon The Soil’: Prince Kuhio Threw A Lifeline To Hawaiians Who Wanted Homes Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

‘Place Them Back Upon The Soil’: Prince Kuhio Threw A Lifeline To Hawaiians Who Wanted Homes

His dream of giving Hawaiians self-sufficiency through land ownership became law but implementation has stumbled for a century.

Hawaii Lobbyist Charged With Vet Clinic Drug Violations Hawaii News Now

Hawaii Lobbyist Charged With Vet Clinic Drug Violations

An indictment says Alicia Maluafiti obtained drugs using a veterinarian’s credentials, but the political insider says she didn’t know it was improper.