Hawaiʻi's school playgrounds sit empty on the weekends, fenced off over flimsy bureaucratic concerns. Many keiki are left with few good options to play.

Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm's office can't investigate an employee for witness tampering because he never signed the pinky-swear form promising not to commit crimes.

Submitted for your consideration: a civic dream of steel and concrete. A lesson in how not to build a future, now arriving on a lonely track… in the Skyline Zone.

Honolulu City Council chair Tommy Waters is running for a third term thanks to a loophole in the county charter. But should we even have legislative term limits?

A policy disagreement over sewer fee rate schemes at the Honolulu City Council prompted council chair Tommy Waters, a Democrat, to instigate a leadership shakeup that elevated MAGA Republican Andria Tupola to Vice Chair.

Step right up! As the Incredible Blangiardi bends the iron bar of police commission autonomy, the commissioners clown around, and Chief Logan is shot from a cannon! The Honolulu Circus is coming to take you away!

Three former public officials will plead guilty to corruption charges, bringing an end to the 11-year Kealoha Scandal that rocked Honolulu—so says former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, under whose administration the scandal first unfolded.

Built backwards, started 30 years too late and handled by the most bumbling assortment of public and private officials imaginable, and now—with yet another lawsuit to slow it down and expand its cost to the taxpayer—it’s no wonder the Honolulu Rail project is making everyone a little crazy.

Under pressure from condo owners and boards, the Honolulu City Council may weaken proposed long-delayed legislation to mandate sprinklers in all residential high-rises.

On former Honolulu city prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro’s “not guilty” verdict in his public corruption case.