Join our newsroom staff at the Hilo Public Library on Thursday.

Join us at the Nanakuli Public Library on Wednesday to talk about community issues and Civil Beat’s reporting efforts.

We’re partnering with Hawaii’s public libraries to learn more about our diverse communities and show you our brand of journalism.

Meet our new Li Center for Global Journalism fellow who hopes to help people in Hawaii better understand the Southeast Asian country.

Other states routinely identify inmates who die in custody, but Hawaii refuses to do so. That prevents the public from learning how most of those inmates died.

Hawaii Business magazine won the top prize this year — Public Service Reporting — for a story on Honolulu’s rail project.

Reporters should not be forced to reveal sources or turn over notes on a story. A state court judge agrees.

Responses to Civil Beat’s surveys are heavily used by voters, especially after ballots show up in the mail. So why don’t many incumbents bother to send them in?

Young journalists from various backgrounds and colleges are getting hands-on training in the news business here at Civil Beat.

We’re beefing up on Maui first, so expect to see much more enterprise reporting from that island starting this week. Big Island and Kauai coming soon.