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

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

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 ...

Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida, a position he's held since 2023. Before that, he was an associate professor and director at the University of Arizona ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Amanda Shaw serves as Statewide Food Systems coordinator, a partnership between the state of Hawaiʻi and Agriculture ...

With 1 in 5 city jobs unfilled, some departments would lose millions of dollars while others would lose nothing.

The state energy office and Hawaiʻi's largest utility are at odds over upgrades to a major Oʻahu power plant that have been in the works for years.