Janitor Gets To Watch His Daughter Teach In The Same School Where He Built A Better Life
Janitor Gets To Watch His Daughter Teach In The Same School Where He Built A Better Life For more than...
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Kaua‘i Voters Could Decide Whether Gated Communities Should Be Banned That’s one of several proposals the Charter Review Commission may put on the ballot next fall, along with increasing oversight of the County Council’s budget.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/kauai-voters-decide-gated-communities-banned/
Battling A Voracious Beetle In The Invasive Species Capital Of The World Tactics vary by island in the ongoing fight to save Hawaiʻi’s iconic palms from coconut rhinoceros beetles.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/battling-beetle-invasive-species-capital-of-the-world/
Hawaii’s young adults struggle to launch amid skyrocketing costs
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/22/hawaii-news/hawaiis-young-adults-struggle-to-launch-amid-skyrocketing-costs/
Family Opens Pizza Restaurant Dedicated To Hiring Employees With Special Needs
Family Opens Pizza Restaurant Dedicated To Hiring Employees With Special Needs What began as a challenge for one California family...
The Honolulu Police Commission Doesn’t Know What HPD Needs Police chief selection processes are often carried out in isolation from department employees, not just in Honolulu.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/the-honolulu-police-commission-doesnt-know-what-hpd-needs/
HPD chief applicants narrowed down to 11
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/21/hawaii-news/hpd-chief-applicants-narrowed-down-to-11/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Man Walks 6-Year-Old Girl To School After Finding Her Alone In Freezing Weather
Man Walks 6-Year-Old Girl To School After Finding Her Alone In Freezing Weather A simple act of compassion from Detroit...
Photo Essay: Building A Hawaiian Fishpond Wall To Connect People Roughly 2,000 volunteers helped build the final 380 feet of a wall enclosing an 800-year-old Hawaiian fishpond in Kāneʻohe.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/photo-essay-building-a-hawaiian-fishpond-wall-to-connect-people/
HART audit concludes results are positive, rail agency says
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation announced Friday that a recently completed annual audit of its financial statements proved “positive”...
Southwest Airlines launches nonstop Hilo-to-Vegas route
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/20/hawaii-news/southwest-airlines-launches-nonstop-hilo-to-vegas-route/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Hawaiʻi County Awards $6 Million Through Homelessness and Housing Fund
Hawaiʻi County Awards $6 Million Through Homelessness and Housing Fund The County of Hawaiʻi Office of Housing & Community Development...
Hawaiʻi County & The Food Basket Award $500,000 in Grants to Strengthen Community Food Security
Hawaiʻi County & The Food Basket Award $500,000 in Grants to Strengthen Community Food Security The County of Hawai‘i Department...
PLAN FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO TRAFFIC EMERGENCY ZONE ON HAWAIʻI BELT ROAD
PLAN FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO TRAFFIC EMERGENCY ZONE ON HAWAIʻI BELT ROAD HILO, Hawaiʻi – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation...
High School Students Repair Cars — Then Give Them Away To Single Mothers In Need
High School Students Repair Cars — Then Give Them Away To Single Mothers In Need At a high school in...
Kirstin Downey: Food Shortages In Hawaiʻi? A Lesson From World War I A nearly forgotten piece of Hawaiʻi history can help us in the debate over how to keep our food supply flowing to the islands.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/kirstin-downey-food-shortages-in-hawai%ca%bbi-a-lesson-from-world-war-i/
Kaua‘i’s Robinson Family Quietly Pursues New Industrial Development The island’s largest private landowner is exploring how to turn the old Olokele sugar mill into the rural Westside’s first industrial park.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/kauais-robinson-family-quietly-pursues-new-industrial-development/
Should A State Worker Be Able To Lease Public Property Without Bids? An agency development director can now enter five-year leases for state-owned property in Kakaʻako at below-market rates without board approval or public notice.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/should-state-worker-lease-public-property-without-bids/
Meeting to discuss Hilo wilderness park draws large crowd
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/19/hawaii-news/meeting-to-discuss-hilo-wilderness-park-draws-large-crowd/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Volcano Watch — One year of Kīlauea’s episodic summit fountaining: highlighting the hazards
By Hawaiian Volcano Observatory December 18, 2025 On December 23, 2024, a unique eruption began in Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, with a style...
