When special assessments and maintenance fees skyrocket, residents who volunteer for housing boards rarely have training and often lack access to important documents to figure out if it's justified.

Two and a half weeks after Tropical Storm Lala dumped more than a trillion gallons of rain on the islands, Honolulu issued a ...

Forest stewards say Honolulu's tree canopy is a natural infrastructure worth investing in with more extreme weather around the corner.

A forthcoming book, "Operation Sparrow," chronicles the team that risked their lives in a successful WWII deception mission. Guy Nunn was one of them.

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Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ...

Growing more local crops is not enough. As climate risks mount, we need an integrated system of planning and investment in ...

Hawaiʻi voters know the lauhala-and-plastic-egg silliness isn't about protecting their rights at the ballot box. It's about ...

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

Radio is critical during disasters. Kauaʻi has again exposed that many stations lack generators and other equipment needed to ...

Hawai‘i was once considered a place that somehow dodged hurricanes. Lala and Lowell have changed that. What's happening in ...

There will be a trip to study transit-oriented development, but no one can say exactly who's going, where or when.