Honolulu officials have been keeping an eye on how Maui has managed the issue.

Authors Sydney Iaukea and Will Caron will talk about community-based resistance and land use issues from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lahaina Public Library.

Similar to what happened in Florida, we drained Waikiki and opened ourselves up to the threat of flooding.

The council planning committee heard seven bills that could drastically change fees, fines and enforcement for thousands of Oahu's short-term rentals.

The Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice supports the effort to regulate short-term rentals, but opposes this measure.

Nonprofit organizations join the state in efforts to establish the voting habit in young people.

There have been four law-enforcement-involved shootings in less than two months on Oʻahu, three of which were fatal.

The Honolulu City Council advanced a resolution to create “safe zones” while deferring a blanket sit-lie ban expansion that would have covered the whole island.

Three Honolulu City Council bills would further restrict where homeless people can be. Critics say that would worsen the problem.

It’s high time our elected officials made sustainability the central tenet of all future policy decisions.