Alternatives to jail are picking up momentum as state officials seek to replace the overcrowded Oʻahu Community Correctional Center.

Contractor flaws and delays in a complicated $18M tech upgrade pose ‘substantial risks’ to the state, according to consultants.

Public records requests can reveal information that would never appear in official news releases. But there is no guarantee agencies will hand the information over.

The audit followed Civil Beat reporting that found irregularities in the state’s kauhale initiative.

Republican and small businessman Gary Cordery says his children had to move away because they could not afford to stay. He wants to reduce the cost of living.

A power struggle with school funders prompted at least one governing board member to resign. 

The school can’t stay open without a governing board, but it may have few options for recruiting a new one. The Hawaiʻi State Public Charter School Commission will decide what happens next on Thursday.

Seniors at a state-owned affordable housing complex in Kakaʻako are scared about rising rents as the development authority seeks to recoup losses at the financially troubled project.

Officials say they hope a new Oʻahu home will ensure hard-to-place foster children don’t need to sleep in government offices or hotels in the future.

There will be a trip to study transit-oriented development, but no one can say exactly who’s going, where or when.