Hawaiʻi summer school has been free for students over the past four years, but the end of federal funding means schools must ...

Staff vacancies require corrections officers to work at least 16- or 24-hour shifts, and the mandatory overtime takes a toll.

Hundreds of Civil Beat readers offer up their fireworks solutions after a deadly New Year's explosion in the Salt Lake area.

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

The state of Hawaiʻi has revoked the licenses of an acupuncturist and physical therapist convicted two and a half years ago ...

Narrow alleyways turn into gauntlets of flame. A fireball scours the street, combusting all in its path. Faces are blistered, ...

Albert Ian and Shawn Schweitzer say police framed them for the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist on the Big Island.

As he reaches Hawaiʻi's age limit to serve, Mark Recktenwald calls for more transparency “so the public can see what we are doing.” ...

Kamalani Academy, a Wahiawā charter school serving 115 students in grades kindergarten through eight, is expected to close in June after the Hawaiʻi State Public Charter School Commission voted on ...

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Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His collection of poems, The Oldtimers, was published earlier this year by Bamboo Ridge Press. The poem is reprinted with permission of the author.