Native Hawaiians

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.

Kirstin Downey: Taking Stock Of Hawaiʻi’s Historic Feathered Capes Kirstin Downey/2016

Kirstin Downey: Taking Stock Of Hawaiʻi’s Historic Feathered Capes

Most of them remain off-island, and aficionados seek what glimpses of them they can find.

Developer Wants To Use Hawaiian Home Lands Powers To Skirt Zoning Rules David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Developer Wants To Use Hawaiian Home Lands Powers To Skirt Zoning Rules

Land swap could clear the way for commercial development on land set aside for housing. Commissioners say it’s worth it for the revenue.

Native Hawaiians: Help With Housing Continues To Elude The Hawaiian Community Kawika Lopez/Civil Beat/2025

Native Hawaiians: Help With Housing Continues To Elude The Hawaiian Community

The Legislature rejected most of the Hawaiian advocates proposals to put more money and initiatives to help get people off the waitlist.

Hawaiʻi Lawmakers Propose New Effort To Map Ancient Fishponds (Sarah Tomita/Civil Beat/2025)

Hawaiʻi Lawmakers Propose New Effort To Map Ancient Fishponds

Nonprofits would create a database of fishponds to help kickstart restoration efforts