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WalletHub’s analysts compared 1,268 U.S. cities....

If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar....

Hawaii has a low business survival rate, with only slightly more businesses created in 2013 than failed that year....

...mass shootings in this country are more a reflection of problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems....

PUC Chairman Randy Iwase seems confident that the ruling will stand....

The Dole fruit and Dow chemical companies must face a lawsuit from migrant farm workers who claim they were harmed by a pesticide, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled....

Hawaii has grabbed tens of millions of dollars from Honolulu County taxpayers and diverted it to the general fund, rather than using it for a mass transit rail project as intended....

The Department of the Interior will conduct four meetings by teleconference....

Hawaii ranks 44th at $58 per person ....

...This is a question for Congress to decide, not a small band of lawyer-activists inside the Obama administration....

Sylvia Luke wants it as a slush fund to purchase Ali’i Place. Ernie Martin wants it to build affordable housing....

Faleomavaega's sister, Vaitunasa Salu Hunkin-Finau is prepared to make a bid to return the office to family hands....

NextEra reported that long-time Abercrombie confidant, Senator Brian Schatz and aide Josh Handleman, had a meeting on April 7, 2014 at NextEra Energy Headquarters in Juno Beach, Florida....

The state lawsuit also claimed Ciber used lobbyists and “exercised inappropriate political influence” to persuade the state to continue making payments to the company....

...the average property tax deduction taken on the Schedule A, per tax return, for each county....

...if you thought this was an isolated incident, you haven't been paying attention to Tulsi Gabbard....

Hawaii residents had the highest financial well-being in the nation in 2014, followed closely by Alaska residents....

"...it kind of reminds me of how high school teenagers act,” Ms. Gabbard said....

...the Attorney General’s investigative report has not previously been made public....

...KimJong Un is “on a quest for nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them intercontinentally....”

...subpoenas are going out and an investigative grand jury could hear the case later this year....

Today’s map looks at state tax collections per capita....

Several states opposed the stay, including Hawaii...

The cost of illegal immigration in Hawaii may be associated with several state policies which are friendly towards undocumented workers....

The school borrowed $32.5 million in a five-year deal at a 4.48% yield....

In Hawaii, abortion laws are described as less restrictive than those passed in other states....

A solid constitution cannot be drafted in only forty days, and the forty delegates who gather will not have the authority to speak for the entire lahui. Instead, the 'aha delegates should consider....

OHA Trustee Rowena Akana lost her ARM Chairmanship.  Now she spills the beans....

...money meant for the rail project is being diverted to other Ansaldo divisions....

In Hawaii annual costs for 4-year-old care are equal to 55.8 percent of minimum-wage earnings....

...this documentary that will bring the voice of scientists in laboratories and farmers in the papaya fields in Hawaii and banana gardens in Uganda to the global audience....

...NBC News has seen fit to call attention to an obscure MoveOn.org petition seeking to change the name of President William McKinley High School in Honolulu....

More than five years of haggling between United States and 11 other nations bordering the Pacific Rim ended Monday in a proposed agreement that has been hailed as "historic" though still not publicly released....

Now 41 of them say it has a major flaw that needs to be changed....

The proposed species occupy 11 types of ecosystems....

There were at least 250 people there....

WalletHub compared 515 U.S. cities across 10 key metrics, ranging from population growth rate to unemployment rate decrease....

...The sign at Marine Corps Base Hawaii reads: "God bless the military, their families, and the civilians who work with them." It has stood there for 14 years....

...On September 9 Hawaii became the first state to post a draft waiver proposal for public comment....

...customers in deregulated states and areas can shop around for electric plans....

WalletHub analyzed the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 13 key metrics, ranging from average starting salary to unemployment rate to the projected number of teachers per student by 2022....

...there is a tipping point, when a community moves away from being a family friendly environment and begins a steep decline towards drug use, crime and gang membership....

...slanted perception created by the misinformation, wishful thinking, naiveté and downright ignorance of some of our present day “Hawaiian leaders"....

...areas with restrictive land use regulations, often referred to as “smart growth,” were hit the hardest when housing crisis hit....

WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2015’s States Where Hispanics Are Most Assimilated....

Each of the elected officials on the list directly benefited from the injustices that were done to Native Hawaiians.  They also benefited from Hee’s theft and tax evasion....

...Lanny Sinkin, representing the “Independent and Sovereign Nation State of Hawaii,” lobbied for the return of the erstwhile Hawaiian monarchy....

According to Politico, in the spring before the 2008 election, Clinton supporters forwarded an email that questioned Obama’s religious affiliation and citizenship....