The state agency in charge of Hawaiʻi’s homeless villages lacks the records to show how millions of dollars paid to a nonprofit to build hundreds of housing units was actually spent, a Civil Beat ...

The Honolulu City Council has reappointed Jim Ireland to head the Honolulu Emergency Services Department. This comes after some former employees testified against Ireland. HPR's Mark Ladao has more.

The Honolulu City Council will hold another hearing to reappoint Dr. Jim Ireland to lead the Honolulu Emergency Services ...

City officials defended the trip, saying it was necessary to inform a decision on planned new license and ID card designs for ...

Gov. Josh Green has signed into law two bills regulating guns in the islands and is considering two others as the state ...

The East-West Center is bracing for impact from potential elimination of federal government support under President Donald ...

With just a couple weeks left in the legislative session, representatives of dozens of environmental groups rallied at the ...

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Oahu residents turned in roughly 367 firearms of all types today in a gun buyback program at the Aloha Stadium, the Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) announced in a news release Saturday afternoon.

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM / MARCH 20 It was a full house at the state Capitol during the recent spring break : Rep. Luke Evslin, left, with his children, Levi, 6, and Finley, 8, on the ...

Opponents to plans by Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s administration to site the city’s next solid-waste landfill on active pineapple ...

At the president’s pavilion on Punahou School campus Monday, the Congressional Medal of Honor was presented to the nephew of ...