The group didn’t trust Mokulele Airlines’ scheduled flights, underscoring the difficulties island residents have accessing health care and other services.

The plant is the focus of new studies about its potential therapeutic benefits.

The paroling authority sets the minimum terms that inmates must serve before they can be released from prison, a task that other states assign to judges.

Lanai and Molokai residents often must fly to Honolulu weeks before their baby’s due date to be close to an urban medical center when they go into labor.

Demand for beef is exceeding supply, but local producers are not seeing the returns.

For months the fragility of a vital air link endangered the health of people across rural Hawaii. The state is still trying to fix it.

The new federal funding would provide additional fiber links between the islands to make service more reliable, and to reach unserved rural communities.

Residents of Kauai’s north shore are overwhelmingly opposed to a plan to build a cell tower on a residential lot in Haena. A spokesperson for AT&T told Civil Beat that for a community prone to being cut off by landslides and flood waters from the rest of the island, better cell service for public safety workers would seem to be a clear benefit.

Hawaii’s congressional delegation wants to know why the money it fights for is not being used by the Department of Education.

The free service can’t solve rural health care access issues. But organizers say it can help more people than it does currently.