John Hill

A close look at a new $600,000 settlement by the Department of Human Services reveals the child welfare bureaucracy's shortcomings. It's just the latest big award.

A state investigation alleges Laurie Loomis used an account she failed to disclose to the state bar to collect adoption fees and make payments to birth mothers, a facilitator and herself.

Jody Hall previously arranged for pregnant women to fly from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. through Honolulu in violation of international law. It's unclear if this new investigation will examine those actions as well as the jail accusations.

The Hawaii Supreme Court has ordered parties to submit briefs in a case involving the child welfare records of Isabella Kalua, a Waimanalo girl who was placed by the state with a couple now accused of killing her. The records would likely show why the state and Family Court chose Isaac and Lehua Kalua to […]

Judge Matthew Viola admitted that the public has an interest in how the state and Family Court placed Isabella Kalua with the parents accused of killing her.

The boy lived for five years in the Wahiawa home of Thomas and Brandy Blas and like Geanna suffered severe abuse and neglect, the complaint says.

A tenant named Tyler Markman told the state that his property manager was using unlicensed workers to show apartments. Despite a very clear 2015 directive, regulators said the law was too vague to take action.

In the absence of legislative oversight, litigation is one of the few ways to find out what went wrong.

The lenders’ policies and an obscure thicket of state and federal regulation and law determine which homeowners will get interest on their sizable insurance payouts.

Once a part of the urban fabric, pay phones are disappearing. In Hawaii, some are being removed, but others seem to be decaying in place.