Native Hawaiians

Army Wants Faster Movement On Deal For Hawaiʻi Live-Fire Training Lands Spc. Abreanna Goodrich/U.S. Army via AP/2023

Army Wants Faster Movement On Deal For Hawaiʻi Live-Fire Training Lands

The Army secretary said he asked Gov. Josh Green’s office for a list within the next few weeks of things the military can do to help the community.

Search Begins For New Kamehameha Schools Trustee David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Search Begins For New Kamehameha Schools Trustee

Trustees earn up to $186,000. Applications are due Sept. 1.

Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million

A state court will decide soon whether to allow one of Hawaiʻi’s oldest and largest charitable trusts to settle claims related to the fires that destroyed Lahaina.

OHA Trustees Race To Beat Deadline For New Controversial Budget Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

OHA Trustees Race To Beat Deadline For New Controversial Budget

Staff and some trustees had been caught off guard by a dramatically different spending plan. Monday’s decision came after a flurry of changes to reach a compromise.

OHA Staff Baffled By Spending Plan Filled With Dramatic Cuts, Changes Kawika Lopez/Civil Beat/2025

OHA Staff Baffled By Spending Plan Filled With Dramatic Cuts, Changes

A vote comes Monday for the new budget, which some fear could undermine the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ mission.

Kirstin Downey: Sacred Burial Sites Are Being Destroyed In This Town Claire Caulfield/Civil Beat/2020

Kirstin Downey: Sacred Burial Sites Are Being Destroyed In This Town

Local and state officials are joining forces to protect and preserve iwi kūpuna that are more frequently turning up in Kailua.

Drones Could Be Dispatched As First Responders To Crime Scenes In Hawaiʻi Denby Fawcett/Civil Beat/2025

Drones Could Be Dispatched As First Responders To Crime Scenes In Hawaiʻi

State police want to use license plate readers and drones to fight crime on Hawaiian homelands. Futuristic law enforcement technology could also be deployed soon in Waikīkī.

AG: Iwi Kūpuna Destroyed After State Halted North Shore Project Provided: State of Hawaiʻi/2025

AG: Iwi Kūpuna Destroyed After State Halted North Shore Project

Hawaiʻi is seeking a restraining order against the landowner and builder who were installing a septic system at a Ke Iki beach property where iwi kūpuna were damaged.

Kirstin Downey: Caring For The ʻĀina From Thousands Of Miles Away National Park Service photo

Kirstin Downey: Caring For The ʻĀina From Thousands Of Miles Away

A new book shows how one Hawaiian family has upheld its responsibility to care for an important cultural site in the face of rising taxes and encroaching development.

Is The Military In For A Wake-Up Call As Hawaiʻi Leases Near End? Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2020

Is The Military In For A Wake-Up Call As Hawaiʻi Leases Near End?

The state’s rejection of the U.S. Army’s environmental assessment of impacts of its training may foreshadow the future, one some Native Hawaiians say won’t be smooth sailing.