More than 20% of students in Hawaiʻi don’t have all of the vaccines required to attend school.

For years, understaffing and complaints of burnout at the city’s ambulance service have prompted discussion about merging it with the fire department.

Key mental health worker on Lānaʻi resigns, eroding in-person patient care and exposing the fragility of a system that depends so heavily on one worker.

Regulations and a lack of beds make it tough for minors who are homeless to find shelter.

Lawmakers are considering whether the kauhale program deserves even more money and what controls to put on it.

Staff turnover at Hawaiʻi County has stalled the use of new measures meant to penalize property owners with illegal junkyards and derelict cars.

There is effectively one attorney on Oʻahu handling all the petitions for getting severely mentally ill people treatment through a court order. The mayor says that needs to change.

The state is working to increase childhood immunization rates amid growing concern about the rising number of cases nationally.

A new emergency rule would allow students to receive the measles vaccine without giving up their religious exemptions in schools.

Analysts, scientists, academics and journalists succumbed to a conventional wisdom based on fear and the view that the only thing important was saving lives.