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				Thirty Meter Telescope Planners Consider Other Sites On Mauna Kea
Gov. Josh Green pledges to help with the permitting process for sites where old telescopes have been decommissioned.
          
        Hawaii News Now/Screenshot/2025
      
      
				Fatal ʻEwa Beach Fire: Care Home Had History Of Not Documenting Fire Drills
Wednesday’s blaze left two people dead and one seriously injured.
          
        Flickr via KAZVorpal
      
      
				Government Shutdown: Hawaiʻi Announces Financial Aid For Housing, Utilities
Applications for one aid fund open today. Details are still being worked out for another, which is specifically for Native Hawaiians.
          
        David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
      
      
				Hawaiʻi’s Child Welfare Reform Efforts Bump Up Against Budget Fears
Gov. Josh Green has imposed spending restrictions on state departments, which means new money to help fix problems at CWS will be scarce next year.
          
        Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024
      
      
				Maui Council Member Tasha Kama Remembered For Life Of Service
Her death leaves a void on the ideologically split nine-member council as it confronts major housing policy decisions.
          
        Tia Lewis/Civil Beat/2025
      
      
				Helmet Or Hospital: A Choice To Save Your Life
As a trauma nurse, I see firsthand the consequences of not wearing a helmet.
          
        Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
      
      
				Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Trish K. Morikawa
She shares the many chance encounters that led her on the path to public service as a judge for the Oʻahu First Circuit Court of Hawai‘i.
          
        Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
      
      
				Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Rebecca Soon
She shares more about her upbringing and journey with wrestling with the question of whether she was “Hawaiian enough.”