A neighborhood in Hawaii’s capital city has been plagued by a sprawling waterfront homeless shanty town that includes a makeshift houseboat used to avoid encampment sweeps. The two-story floating ...

Honolulu Police Officer Molly Wilt speaks with a woman who gave her name "Helen" on South King Street before giving her a warning about violating Honolulu laws that prohibit sitting or lying on public ...

City officials are working to address a large homeless encampment along Keehi Stream in Kalihi that includes a floating two-story structure anchored in the middle of the waterway.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time since 2024, Oahu on Monday resumed its unsheltered Point in Time count of people living on the streets.

Darlene Mayo, 52, died on a sidewalk near a Koa Pancake House in Wahiawa of severe anemia likely due to a chronic lice infestation. Aris Garcia died of methamphetamine intoxication on a canal ...

That had been the outcome for Almond dozens of times already this year and would be again just a week later. It is the cycle of Honolulu’s stepped-up campaign against homelessness, a revolving door in ...

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi's campaign to reduce homelessness is a revolving door of citations and court dismissals, with little lasting effect. Honolulu Civil Beat analyzed thousands of court ...

Yvonne Almond was supposed to be in court to face one of 233 charges she has been hit with in the past year for being homeless in Honolulu. But when the judge in Courtroom 7D called her name, she was ...