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Hundreds of Civil Beat readers offer up their fireworks solutions after a deadly New Year's explosion in the Salt Lake area.

Police have arrested two people in connection with the New Yearʻs Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu neighborhood that ...

The measure to leave the surcharge in place for an additional 17 years is expected to win strong support from Kaua'i, Maui ...

As he reaches Hawaiʻi's age limit to serve, Mark Recktenwald calls for more transparency “so the public can see what we are ...

Hawaiʻi summer school has been free for students over the past four years, but the end of federal funding means schools must ...

The scheme started around 2008 with a trip to China, for which Miske brought a “large sum of money” to broker a deal, ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...