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In August 1993, Reiner was shooting parts of a movie called “North” on Kauaʻi. One scene required a large group of locals to ...

Police chief selection processes are often carried out in isolation from department employees, not just in Honolulu.

The Texas Legislature created policies for transparent artificial intelligence use by state agencies. Georgia ordered a ...

Nick Schlapak is the president of the State of Hawaiʻi Organization of Police Officers, which represents over 2,500 police officers in the Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi and Maui police departments. A ...

Hawaiʻi’s congressional delegation condemned the “Trump administration attack” on minority-serving institutions. The programs expand opportunities and help students who have “too often been left ...

Roughly 2,000 volunteers helped build the final 380 feet of a wall enclosing an 800-year-old Hawaiian fishpond in Kāneʻohe.

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An agency executive director can now enter five-year leases for state-owned property in Kakaʻako at below-market rates ...

Local nonprofit leaders estimate that more than 400 people could end up back on the streets if funding cuts go through.