Federal Government

Second Maui Immigrant Pleads Not Guilty To Illegal Voting Christina Jedra/Civil Beat/2026

Second Maui Immigrant Pleads Not Guilty To Illegal Voting

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

FBI Records Raise New Questions About Murder-For-Hire Plot Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

FBI Records Raise New Questions About Murder-For-Hire Plot

Search warrant affidavits, confidential until now, reveal new details about the investigation into a plot to assassinate a federal judge and prosecutor.

As Federal Government Stirs Illegal Voting Fears, Two Cases Arise In Hawaiʻi Erin Nolan/Civil Beat/2026

As Federal Government Stirs Illegal Voting Fears, Two Cases Arise In Hawaiʻi

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

In A Hidden Hawaiʻi Gulch, A Wartime Secret Opens To The Public Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

In A Hidden Hawaiʻi Gulch, A Wartime Secret Opens To The Public

Last month, the National Park Service started guided tours to Honouliuli, a former World War II internment camp.

DOJ Targets 3 More States In Effort To Axe In-State Tuition For Immigrants Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

DOJ Targets 3 More States In Effort To Axe In-State Tuition For Immigrants

Hawaiʻi is one of at least 20 states that offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who reside in the state.

Trump-Backed Program Offers Money For Students. Will Hawaiʻi Take It? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Trump-Backed Program Offers Money For Students. Will Hawaiʻi Take It?

An infusion of scholarship money could help families pay for private school tuition and other educational expenses. But Hawaiʻi will have to cross political lines to get it. 

Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2022

Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan

The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected. 

Federal Government Abruptly Cut These Hawaiʻi Markets From Food Stamps Program (Screenshot/2023)

Federal Government Abruptly Cut These Hawaiʻi Markets From Food Stamps Program

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.

Nonprofits Face New Political Realities, Threats To Homeless Housing Programs Leilani Combs/Civil Beat/2026

Nonprofits Face New Political Realities, Threats To Homeless Housing Programs

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

In Puna, It Takes Years To Get A Mail Box At The Post Office Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

In Puna, It Takes Years To Get A Mail Box At The Post Office

In the fastest growing part of Hawai‘i, a post office box shortage has made voting, shopping online, accessing important paperwork and sending packages an ongoing challenge.