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At $2.9 billion this extra cost is nearly $3,000 for every man, woman and child in Honolulu. It is more than $8,500 per household....

Floating turbine foundations cost about eight times more than seafloor-based supports for their conventional counterparts....

Keawe Ryder, a 37-year old Kona musician, was found dead in a South Kohala lava field in 2013. He had been shot and hit with a hammer....

...he diverted client money to his own personal use over a 17-year period....

...compared to the national average cost of goods and services....

The Japanese government in 2009 recognized that accepting such an apology would undermine the foundations of the US-Japan alliance. Just look at how the 1993 Apology Resolution has undermined the foundations of the State of Hawaii.

Hawaii had no mosquitoes up until 1826. That’s when, historians say, a whaling vessel that had taken on water in Mexico carelessly “drained dregs alive with wrigglers” into a stream on Maui....

At 18.5%, Hawaii has the lowest adult obesity rate in the U.S., closely followed by Colorado at 19.8%....

"...to add the extra capacity for every vehicle’s charging needs will require solar panels and wind turbines on nearly every available inch of land....”

Dr. Phil Eskew, founder of DPC Frontier, says the bill’s language requesting the insurance division of DCCA to conduct a survey suggests Hawaii lawmakers don’t understand what DPC is....

...the author goes to great lengths to ignore the spotty legislative record of these two legislators to deliver a fairy tale....

Native Hawaiians continue to disagree on the future of the sovereignty movement, or even whether there should be one....

The complaints describe the actions of a number of serial pedophiles active in the 1950s through the 1970s....

When it comes to hiring a home health aide, where you live matters....

...Hawaii's aggregate scores are in the highest quartiles of both illegal and legal corruption....

Illinois has the nation’s highest median property tax rate at 2.67 percent, according to new data from CoreLogic, while Hawaii has the lowest median property tax rate at 0.31 percent....

...second in problem gambling treatment....

... marijuana providers with high startup costs are not allowed to deduct any of them or any routine business expenses ....

...Sanders’ camp has been quiet as far as whether Gabbard would join the Vermont senator as his running mate....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

...Hawaii collects $1,232 per person in income taxes....

Field trials in Brazil are using a genetically modified form of the A. aegypti mosquito....

...threatening to make the state’s already-restrictive gun laws even more onerous for law-abiding gun owners....

We reviewed 28,561 U.S. public high schools; 17 Hawaii schools made our rankings....

Conference committee is a dark time at the Legislature....

…The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology occupies its own tiny island in Kaneohe Bay, known as Moku o Lo‘e....

The investigative division at the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office relies heavily on retired law enforcement officers hired as temps....

...and the highest total sales and gross receipts tax as percentage of personal income....

...“the nation’s largest infrastructure fiasco by far” on a per capita basis....

The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) is run by the lead lobbyists for the two big companies — both have obvious Democratic Party connections....

A federal judge refused the unions' request for an emergency stay in February, leading to Wednesday showdown in the Ninth Circuit....

...Hawaii legislators received the largest compensation for any part-time or hybrid legislature in the nation....

Hawaii has decided it’s time to figure out....

Ancestral landowners in Guam who claim they were never fully compensated for property confiscated during World War II will have their day in court....

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit lobbied hard Wednesday for Hawaii to pause its plan to privatize money-pit hospitals on Maui and Lanai....

...contrasting state and local tax rates with the quality of the services provided....

"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."

... Monday April 4, 2016 at 9:15am ....

...any policy that effectively discriminates against minorities, even if not intentional, violates the Fair Housing Act of 1968....

...Hawaii Cigarette Taxes are $3.20 per pack....

... Drinking and driving can affect everyone but those most at risk are lawmakers ....

...that would have allowed vote-buying amongst lawmakers....

...the bill provides a pretext for employers to demand employee passwords in the case of a suspected data breach....

Lorraine Inouye: Kenoi Should Resign...

Startclass examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics to find the public schools with the highest tuition increases over the past 10 years....

...some project that vapor products will surpass traditional cigarettes in consumption over the next decade....

... the three-year cost of car ownership in Hawaii is $12,065 ....

...Prosecutors are looking into alleged collusion between Hitachi and Finmeccanica over the price paid Finmeccanica for its 40 percent stake in Ansaldo STS....