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Thirty Meter Telescope Planners Consider Other Sites On Mauna Kea Courtesy TMT

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.

Government Shutdown: Hawaiʻi Announces Financial Aid For Housing, Utilities 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.

Hawaiʻi’s Child Welfare Reform Efforts Bump Up Against Budget Fears 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.

Maui Council Member Tasha Kama Remembered For Life Of Service 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.

Helmet Or Hospital: A Choice To Save Your Life 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.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Trish K. Morikawa 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.

Hawaiʻi Storytellers: Rebecca Soon 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.”