The brunt of storm damage was still being assessed on Kauaʻi. One person was killed on Oʻahu from a falling tree.

Almost all of Kauaʻi was without power Tuesday, as officials assess damage and community members start to clean up.

Just two people have been charged with voting as noncitizens in Hawaiʻi in at least the last 40 years.

Two noncitizens told the Maui County Clerk that they had voted. She relayed that information to the FBI.

Even as the hurricane settled into a tropical storm, it bore down across the island chain, hitting rural Big Island harder than other areas.

Testers sent by a nonprofit were told by agents for Greystar, the largest owner of apartment complexes in the United States, that their vouchers would not work.

USDA moves leave customers who use SNAP with less access to food, and mean that stores can’t buy as much product from the local farmers who supply them.

Programs the federal government has long supported to combat homelessness have fallen out favor.

The CORE program was started in 2021 and has changed its focus repeatedly since then, confounding efforts to gauge its effectiveness.