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

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

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

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