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Fix It!

December 2025

Wednesday, December 3

‘What’s That Smell?’ Mysterious Stench Stumps Nānākuli Residents

November 2025

Tuesday, November 18

Fix It! What’s A Playground Without A Slide?

Monday, November 17

Fixed It! Elevator, Broken For Many Months, Rises Again

September 2025

Monday, September 29

Fix It! This Kāneʻohe Road Is Overdue For Repair

Wednesday, September 3

Fix It! Streetlight Keeps Losing A Fight Against An Unruly Tree

Monday, September 1

Fix It! Big Island Building’s Solar Panel System Is On The Blink — Again

August 2025

Monday, August 25

Fixed It! This Popular Waikīkī Promenade Is Finally Open Again

July 2025

Monday, July 28

Fix It! Roosters Love The Waikīkī High Life But Neighbors Don’t Love Them

Monday, July 14

Fix It! Kapālama Hale Parking Has Lots Of Signs But Little Direction

June 2025

Wednesday, June 11

Fix It! Expired Contract Stalls Sidewalk Repairs At Villages of Kapolei 

Thursday, June 5

Fix It! This Wooden Footbridge In Windward Oʻahu Is A Survivor

May 2025

Wednesday, May 21

Fixing It! Sidewalk Corner Passable Now, But More Work Needed

April 2025

Tuesday, April 8

Fixed It! MIA Bridge Railing Gets Replaced; Bumpy Bike Path Gets Smoothed

March 2025

Tuesday, March 25

Fix It! Temporary Road Plates Are Still Rattling Drivers Six Years Later

Tuesday, March 4

Fix It! This Floating Dock In Honolulu Looks More Like A Shipwreck

February 2025

Tuesday, February 25

Fix It! People Have Been Waiting Most Of A Decade To Use This Bathroom 

Tuesday, February 18

Denby Fawcett: KCC Farmers Market-Goers Deserve A Working Bathroom

Monday, February 10

Fix It! Losing Your Lunch On Date Street’s Rutted Bike Path

January 2025

Tuesday, January 14

Fix It! The Courts Are Cracked

December 2024

Wednesday, December 25

Fix It! Where Is The Soap In Honolulu’s Public Bathrooms?

Monday, December 16

Fix It! These Park Lights Went Out Years Ago. Is It Safer Without Them?

Tuesday, December 3

Fix It! ‘Tis The Season For … Busted Public Bathrooms?

November 2024

Friday, November 29

Fix It! A Collapsed Sidewalk Next To An Oceanfront Cafe

Thursday, November 21

Fix It: Civil Beat’s New Column On Broken Infrastructure

‘What’s That Smell?’ Mysterious Stench Stumps Nānākuli Residents Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

‘What’s That Smell?’ Mysterious Stench Stumps Nānākuli Residents

A West Side community has been plagued for several months by a deathly stink, but no one knows where it’s coming from.

Fix It! What’s A Playground Without A Slide? Ben Angarone/Civil Beat/2025

Fix It! What’s A Playground Without A Slide?

A Honolulu park slide was removed and its entrance boarded up earlier this year. It’s still unclear when it’ll be replaced.

Fixed It! Elevator, Broken For Many Months,  Rises Again Jeremy Hay/Civil Beat/2025

Fixed It! Elevator, Broken For Many Months, Rises Again

Medical building patients who had to climb the stairs express relief

Fix It! This Kāneʻohe Road Is Overdue For Repair Matthew Leonard/Civil Beat/2025

Fix It! This Kāneʻohe Road Is Overdue For Repair

Kea’ahala Road connects Kāneʻohe town to major state facilities, but it’s been 20 years since it was properly repaved, and sidewalks are impassable for many.

Fix It! Streetlight Keeps Losing A Fight Against An Unruly Tree Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Fix It! Streetlight Keeps Losing A Fight Against An Unruly Tree

Residents of the Hawaiian homestead in Kapolei worry the overgrown foliage could be a bigger hazard soon.

Fix It! Big Island Building’s Solar Panel System Is On The Blink — Again Kevin Dayton/Civil Beat 2025

Fix It! Big Island Building’s Solar Panel System Is On The Blink — Again

It costs taxpayers $4,000 every month that system isn’t producing electricity.

Fixed It! This Popular Waikīkī Promenade Is Finally Open Again Ben Angarone/Civil Beat/2025

Fixed It! This Popular Waikīkī Promenade Is Finally Open Again

Civil Beat followed up on three previously broken pieces of infrastructure we’ve written about. Here’s what we found.

Fix It! Roosters Love The Waikīkī High Life But Neighbors Don’t Love Them Provided: Marina Kamahele/2025

Fix It! Roosters Love The Waikīkī High Life But Neighbors Don’t Love Them

Responsibility for managing feral chickens on Oʻahu varies from property to property.

Fix It! Kapālama Hale Parking Has Lots Of Signs But Little Direction Matthew Leonard/Civil Beat/2025

Fix It! Kapālama Hale Parking Has Lots Of Signs But Little Direction

Repaving heavily used parking lots is a logistical challenge, the city says, but scheduled maintenance has been moved up following inquiries by Civil Beat.