Council members voted Wednesday to boost the cost of an adult bus pass by $10 a month, along with other price hikes. The Honolulu City Council voted to increase transit fares starting July 1 in an ...

The home flippers behind the hit HGTV show “Renovation Aloha” now owe $40,000 to the city of Honolulu for operating two ...

While fears of retaliation blocked similar bills last year, reaction to national events and realities of local enforcement ...

The king of all trucks, of course, is the Tacoma, Hawaiʻi’s top-selling vehicle. It is so ubiquitous, so iconic that perhaps ...

We can only work together if we stop demonizing animals and stop taking each other’s tools off the table. Civil Beat has been named the best overall news site in Hawaii for 14 years in a row by the ...

The legislation would make Hawaiʻi one of the first states to sidestep the Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court case that allows unlimited corporate spending in local elections. One of the most ...

Civil Beat met up with the Hawaiʻi senator when he was home in Honolulu last week for a freewheeling discussion on the state ...

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

Since giving birth to her seventh pup on May 3, monk seal Kaiwi has spent much of her time resting alongside her newborn at Kaimana Beach. Even in such quiet moments, crowds have remained glued to the ...

The Honolulu City Council already controls the purse strings for the $5 billion city budget, but now key members of the ...

The latest housing report from the University of Hawaiʻi notes some improvements in the market but authors say they are small ...

Using wastewater to produce hydrogen gives us a chance to solve two major problems at the same time. First, it reduces the ...