...for two vacancies – one in the District Court of the Fifth Circuit (island of Kauai) upon the retirement of Judge Trudy K.T. Senda in December, and one in the District Family Court of the Third Circuit (island of Hawaii) as a result of the retirement of Judge Lloyd X. Van De Car....

Nomination papers will be made available, beginning on Monday, August 15, 2016, at the Office of Elections....

...the Interior Department is accepting bids for offshore wind leases in two areas off the Hawaiian island of Oahu....

Barrons: Hawaii Only Place Anybody is Talking About Solar Battery Storage....

...Ms. Yamane previously served as the Acting State Auditor....

Traffic fatalities, 65 and older: 9.1 per 100,000....

...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....

...the 2016 Summer Olympic Games are set to begin at the end of this week in Rio de Janeiro....

...Caldwell collects not only a $164,928 annual pay check from taxpayers but continues to 'work' a second job at a bank collecting an additional $200,000 per year....

...why they’ve chosen to leave their home islands....

...pay providers for achieving results in lieu of a traditional fee-for-service model....

...Feds say in Hawaii the drop was only 3% not the 58% claimed by Caldwell....

Meetings set for Oahu and Kauai ....

...Qualified Hawaii residents may now register and vote on the same day, at Early Walk-In Locations....

...the Hunting, Farming, and Fishing Association....

...Kirk Caldwell has done everything possible to evade questioning and withhold the details of the rail project....

The special treatment applies only to subcontractors....

At the rate Hawaii is spending and taxing, projected budgets will only be sustainable for two more years....

...kabuki theater aimed at baffling and confusing union members to make it look like their union bosses are actually doing something for them when they’re not....

Officials in Maui County are set to impose stringent standards upon short-term housing permitting while serving Airbnb hosts with harsh civil penalties....

Against all odds....

...on track to burn almost 10 million gallons less oil than it did in 2006....

One hundred percent of Maryknoll High School seniors have been accepted to colleges....

...projects and initiatives by Hawaiian Electric to significantly increase its production of renewable energy by the end of the decade....

...A Caucasian woman came up to my dad as he was working on the field and started yelling at him that he was poisoning her....

$3,273,533 in funding from two grant programs to 13 Hawaii companies to help support development of new products....

June 2016 Arrivals Up 4.2 Percent, Expenditures Gained 4.3 Percent....

...Ing claims a long-running conspiracy is out to get him....

...vote for OHA Trustees in the August 13 Primary....

Rats’ blood vessels took at least three times longer to recover function after only a minute of breathing secondhand marijuana smoke....

Now showing on Oahu, Maui, and Big Island....

"...there might be needles and other hazardous materials in here, so we don’t want people reaching in...."

“I was elected an independent,” Sanders told reporters at a Bloomberg-hosted breakfast the morning after....

... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....

The statutory deadline for candidates to file their financial disclosure statements with the Hawaii State Ethics Commission was Friday, July 22, 2016....

...Horizon Line Inc. covered up unsafe conditions on the Jones Act containership HORIZON TRADER employed in the Puerto Rico trade....

"This plainly is the outgrowth of industry lobbying to get CBP to take Jones Act enforcement more seriously."

...the combined federal, state, and local rate paid by the taxpayer on capital gains income....

Registered To Vote On Oahu? - Hawaiian Or Not, This Message Is For You....

The most expensive nationwide is Honolulu, where coffee costs an average of $7.56....

The case involves three parcels on Kauai -- one of which is owned by a fellow who has been a thorn in the County's side....

You would think that posting care home inspections online would have been easy....

Rep Tulsi Gabbard speech nominating Sen Bernie Sanders for President at Democratic National Convention July 26, 2016....

Letter to Obama from Sen Akaka, Gov Cayetano, and Gov Ariyoshi ....

...at $6,000 per resident, the burden of Hawaii’s pension shortfalls is among the highest in the nation....

There are less police officers on the streets today per person than there were in the 1990’s....

There is a clear pattern....

A Message from State Senator Sam Slom:  From time to time there is a candidate who is really worth supporting....