Staff vacancies require corrections officers to work at least 16- or 24-hour shifts, and the mandatory overtime takes a toll.

Kamalani Academy, a Wahiawā charter school serving 115 students in grades kindergarten through eight, is expected to close in June after the Hawaiʻi State Public Charter School Commission voted on ...

Albert Ian and Shawn Schweitzer say police framed them for the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist on the Big Island.

Costs are up 60% just this year, and it is unclear what will happen to the homes after 5 years. But families are grateful to ...

Over five years ago, I published a set of novel arguments on the rapidly approaching renegotiations of the Compacts of Free ...

Eldercide, as, as Margaret Morganroth Gullette describes in her recent book “American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to ...

As he reaches Hawaiʻi's age limit to serve, Mark Recktenwald calls for more transparency “so the public can see what we are doing.” ...

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The Maui Police Department has fired an officer who now faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly tasing a man without ...

Career-based education has rapidly gained traction in Hawaiʻi schools, but not all programs are attracting boys and girls ...