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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....

...the public will suffer from their incompetence....

Using these products for more than a month could be lethal....

...a Navy man told police that Whitt molested him while he slept....

The share of infrastructure expenditures funded by tolls, user fees, and user taxes ranges from 14.2 percent in Alaska to 86.4 percent in Hawaii....

CDC Youth Behavior Risk Survey data ....

"Hedonometer Score measures personal expression of hedonism on social media"

The illegal immigration situation in Hawaii is different than the rest of the country....

Hillview, Ky. filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in late August, brought the national total of municipal bankruptcies to 14 since 2008....

In 2014, the utility company’s non-solar customers paid an extra $53 million in operating and maintenance costs because of residents adding rooftop solar systems....

...figures here are for bonded debt, and do not include other outstanding obligations—including pensions—which add substantially to governments’ future liabilities and are often considered in broader definitions of governmental debt....

Our data set includes such metrics as delivery costs, average annual infant-care costs, the per-capita number of midwives and OB-GYNs, and the per-capita number of child care centers....