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The funds won’t be released until early next year, but the transportation department is looking at ways to expedite processes so work can begin within four months of receipt.

Edward Gravierʻs descendants never knew he sailed to Hawaiʻi in the late-1870s. Then his great-great-grandson found him on the Civil Beat website.

Tom Callis, public information officer for Hawaiʻi County Mayor Kimo Alameda, confirmed in a statement the rooftop system is out of commission, and electricity billing records suggest the system went ...

Neither the Legislature nor the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has shown any real commitment to decarceration.

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Kahoʻolawe was bombed into ruin, and even after cleanup, large areas remain unsafe. At Mākua Military Reservation on Oʻahu, lawsuits halted live-fire training in 2004 after evidence of cultural ...

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That’s when Evans, a political scientist, came across the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum, developed by the research group I used to lead at Stanford University. The curriculum, which is freely ...

Sam Wineberg is an Emeritus Professor of Education at Stanford University. And what you can learn from him, too.

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

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