...The facility has since served 173 individuals, 61 of which have successfully transitioned into stable housing situations....

Compact Impact: Why Pacific Islanders are Fleeing to Hawaii - Neil Mellen...

State Capitol, 5th floor, Governor’s Ceremonial Room....

...An average household in Hawaii County spent an average of $51,700 in 2014....

... Justice Department has demanded the arrest, condemnation and sale of the tugboat Maulani, which snagged an undersea cable in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor and shut down the Electronic Harbor Security System ....

...HB2501 provides time to transition to a process that ensures water is distributed fairly in accordance with the public trust doctrine....

"Hawaii has…80 schools where 90% of teachers are absent ten days or more."

...meetings are set between now and July 7....

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 11:30am

With this new service, Matson will be competing with several shipping companies offering direct services from the USWC to South Pacific Island destinations....

...The unions endorsing Djou were the first unions to support Kirk Caldwell for mayor in 2010 and backed Caldwell again in 2012....

On July 12, any measure that has not been signed or vetoed by Gov. Ige will become law with or without his signature....

Since enabling legislation was enacted into law on May 29, 1986....

Someone needs to take remedial action before the thermonuclear bomb hits....

...CarInsurance.com ranked states on eight metrics to identify which ones are more favorable for motorists....

...the bill took effect immediately upon Ige's approval....

...held on June 24, 2016, at the William S. Richardson School of Law....

...DOH today released the scores and ranking of the applicants for Medical Marijuana Dispensary Licenses....

...omit the most densely populated, and therefore the most useful, portion of the route....

Early in the effort to determine a mass transit alternative for Oahu, city officials announced that the rail project would likely cost a little more than $3 billion....

20 years ago, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that an agreement between the County of Hawaii and a private contractor for the operation of a county landfill violated civil service laws....

"The lawful acquisition, possession, carrying, or use of a firearm does not justify subjecting citizens to ongoing monitoring," the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action....

"If people didn't upset me, I wouldn't have to punch them...."

...it’s clear who the real oppressors are....

...the Honolulu rail system cost could now reach as high as almost $11 bil. from the original projected cost of $5.2 bil....

...spill settlement funding to support Aha Moku for the next fiscal year....

Rifle Association: “High Likelihood of Legal Action”....

All public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Hawaiian Electric Companies' service territory are receiving new, intelligent, energy-monitoring devices and software....

...a call for information and nominations to gauge the wind industry’s interest in commercial wind leases in two areas offshore Oahu....

...Council members Carol Fukunaga, Ann Kobayashi and Ron Menor on a follow-up trip to review Seattle’s homeless projects, including hygiene centers and government-sanctioned tent cities....

...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

Danner pushing for the US DoI Office of Native Hawaiian Relations to be located in Honolulu, not DC....

...Hanabusa pointed out that the same issues underlying the disagreement over teacher travel and education trips are also involved in applying the gift provisions of the ethics code to legislators....

...in a June 16 letter, Case said she was not extending Friel's employment past his six-month probation period....

...Last week, researchers discovered the bodies of six endangered Hawaiian Petrels at a remote breeding colony in Hono o Na Pali Natural Area Reserve, Kauai....

...aerial shooting from helicopters of feral goats, feral sheep, mouflon and mouflon/feral sheep hybrids....

Tenants and landlords are being pointed to resources designed to prevent disputes from escalating to eviction....

...the state’s largest labor union, announced its endorsed candidates for the 2016 Primary Election today....

Ige today signed a fifth supplemental proclamation on homelessness, which will remain in effect until August....

Taxpayers in Hawaii spend about $1.8 billion on education every year....

This study is comprised of 2,464 offenders from the Fiscal Year 2012 cohort....

HART began talking publicly about a “Recovery Plan” only this month even though FTA rules apparently required a Recovery Plan since late 2014....

...filing an official rulemaking petition demanding that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)  remove industrial hemp from the federal drug schedules....

Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Leina’ala Ahu Isa has issued a statement on her Facebook page that OHA spent $33 million on the Akaka Bill....

The newspaper characterized Caldwell's decision-making as "political expediency" driven by his re-election campaign....

They have spread misinformation on everything from GMOs, the Superferry, TMT, and now the ocean monument....