Courtesy Photo/Civil Beat/2025
Riding A Wave: Surfboard Waste Turned Into Building Blocks For New Homes
Hawaiʻi is the home of surfing. Could old surfboards provide residents with new environmentally friendly homes?
Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022
Experts Puzzle Over What The National ‘Chaos’ Might Do To Hawaiʻi’s Economy
The state Council on Revenues takes a cautious posture, making few changes to its state tax collection projections for the years ahead.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024
Like The French And Champagne, Hawaiʻi Farmers Want Protections For Poi
The Attorney General is uneasy about such protections, fearful they would break interstate commerce rules.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019
A ‘Super-Aged’ Population Poses Major Challenges For Hawaiʻi
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the outlook for the state’s oldest seniors from optimistic to more sobering, a recent report says.
(Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025)
Trump Job Cuts In Hawaiʻi: Economists Predict 2,200+ Layoffs
The estimate does not include up to 1,200 jobs potentially lost at the University of Hawaiʻi or layoffs expected related to future downsizing of government and grants.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2023
Lawmakers Question HECO Plan To Collect $1 Billion From Customers
The utility’s bid to shore up its financial footing with a fund that covers and caps future wildfire liability is backfiring in the Legislature.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022
Hawai‘i Condo Owners Could Benefit From State Plan To Prop Up Insurance Market
Lawmakers are moving forward with bills that would rescue owners facing rising rates.
(Brittany Lyte/Civil Beat/2025)
This Luxury Kauaʻi Hotel Is Housing Foreign Workers In Container Homes
The 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay also bought a multimillion-dollar home in a working class neighborhood to house upper management.
David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
Data Dive: China Tariffs Could Hike Cost of Food, Luggage, Furniture, Clothing
China supplies products for many Hawaiʻi businesses that would be affected by the Trump administration’s 10% tariff.
April Estrellon/Civil Beat/2024
Waikīkī Restaurant Owner Investigated For Not Paying Workers
State, federal agencies are looking into claims of bounced paychecks from the owner of Makana Lani and Burgers on Bishop.