Until serious initiatives are implemented by the government and civil society, federal and state public record laws will fail ...

Farmers spent Saturday wading through their properties, trying to pick up the pieces from crops and livestock lost during ...

Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke says she did not take the notorious paper bag of $35,000 in cash from a campaign donor looking to buy influence in state government. She did receive close to that amount in checks ...

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i.

Drones and ShotSpotter and even more surveillance cameras are invading our privacy and need effective oversight.

Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and advocacy nonprofit. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily ...

The dam of the Wahiawā Reservoir is at risk of failing, threatening to unleash “catastrophic flooding” on thousands of people ...

Being quick to blame major public policy failures on corruption hides the fact that it's most often incompetence that's ...

Gay & Robinson, the business arm of Kaua‘i’s Robinson family, filed suit against Aloun Farms this January seeking more than ...

HECO outages rankled Oʻahu Friday, with outages possibly extending into Saturday for East Honolulu and Hawaiʻi Kai. Flash flood warnings were issued elsewhere.

D: Gov. Josh Green issued an emergency order as winds and flooding from a Kona low storm threaten major population centers.

Vacation rentals aren't permitted on farmland under state law, but recent legal battles show some Big Island landowners want ...