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Photo Essay: Building A Hawaiian Fishpond Wall To Connect People Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: Building A Hawaiian Fishpond Wall To Connect People

Roughly 2,000 volunteers helped build the final 380 feet of a wall enclosing an 800-year-old Hawaiian fishpond in Kāneʻohe.

Photo Essay: Students Navigate Toward Hawaiʻi’s Future Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: Students Navigate Toward Hawaiʻi’s Future

The Department of Education expands curriculum with its Ho‘ākea initiative.

Buckets Of Cranberry Sauce, Stacks Of Turkeys: Hotel Feeds Homeless Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Buckets Of Cranberry Sauce, Stacks Of Turkeys: Hotel Feeds Homeless

For three decades, Waikīkī’s Hilton Hawaiian Village has donated meals with all the trimmings to the Institute for Human Services to feed the homeless on Thanksgiving.

Photo Essay: A Revered Hawaiian Koa Canoe Returns To The Ocean Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: A Revered Hawaiian Koa Canoe Returns To The Ocean

The newly restored A‘a, commissioned by royalty, is one of the oldest racing canoes in Hawai‘i.

Photo Essay: Wahiawā Facility Helps Entrepreneurs Turn Food Into Business Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: Wahiawā Facility Helps Entrepreneurs Turn Food Into Business

The year-and-a-half old product-development center in Central Oʻahu helps grow Jina Wye’s limu cracker company.

Why These Photos Were Made With A Toy Camera And The Wrong Size Film Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Why These Photos Were Made With A Toy Camera And The Wrong Size Film

For investigations editor John Hill’s series When No One Is Watching, about dysfunction in Hawaiʻi’s child welfare system, the photographer used a method that exploits imperfections for unexpected results.

Photo Essay: A Honolulu Bike Ride Like No Other Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: A Honolulu Bike Ride Like No Other

The Hawaiʻi Bicycling League celebrated its 50th anniversary with Sunday’s Honolulu Century Ride — a 100-mile journey from Waikīkī to Kaʻaʻawa and back.

Photo Essay: Carving Out A Niche 1 Knife At A Time Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: Carving Out A Niche 1 Knife At A Time

Oʻahu’s only mobile knife sharpener travels to farmers markets, restaurants and residences on a mission to restore knives to like-new condition.

Taking To The Sea To Honor Victims Two Years After Flames Swept Maui Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Taking To The Sea To Honor Victims Two Years After Flames Swept Maui

Flowers fell from a helicopter during Friday’s memorial paddle-out on the second anniversary of the Lahaina tragedy.

Photo Essay: Helping Save Hawaiian Ducks From Extinction Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Photo Essay: Helping Save Hawaiian Ducks From Extinction

Only about 700 koloa maoli remain in the wild and are centered on Kauaʻi. A team of researchers is trying to reestablish the population across the Hawaiian Islands.