Six shootings over two days on Oʻahu made this Fourth of July holiday more violent than last year’s.

New legislation that grew out of the tragedy last New Year’s Eve in Salt Lake provides additional tools for law enforcement to police fireworks use.

People are sending undeclared explosives via U.S.P.S. on a regular basis. Few face arrest or prosecution.

For years, law enforcement agencies said the law held them back from effective fireworks prosecutions. A reform measure awaiting the governor’s OK counts on them to step up.

The seizure of 24 tons of fireworks was the largest single interdiction by the state Illegal Fireworks Task Force.

The five patients, who plan to return to Hawaiʻi, face months or years of rehab.

Learn about the reporting process for our deep dive into the shadowy mainland fireworks distribution network with ties to local retailers.

This concludes the second of two cases brought by a state fireworks task force – both for low-level offenders.

One address on shipping documents in a seizure at Honolulu Harbor is the first in a chain of clues that lead across the country and through the decades — a mysterious web of connections between the legal and illegal fireworks trade.

It’s important to recognize the responsibility that comes with using fireworks. But we should be able to find a way to have safe celebrations.