The Hawaii Senate 2016 Legislative Session will get underway on Wednesday, Jan. 20....

A Hawaii court recently found that the State has a constitutional trust responsibility to support some of the functions of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands....

...CDC found "widespread regulatory noncompliance" in the university's labs that use biological agents and toxins....

...the House Republican Caucus priorities for the upcoming session....

West Oahu is currently drowning under exigent overcrowding....

Families on the mainland are coming forward, saying their loved ones are among the missing Marines....

Girls Court is the Judiciary’s innovative effort to stem the rising tide of female delinquency in Hawaii, where the proportion of female juvenile arrests has been significantly higher than the national average....

First & Third Circuit Seeking Applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsel....

...VOTE: Tuesday March 8 from 6pm to 8pm....

2004: Newly elected Mayor Hannemann asserts that 34 miles of rail will cost $2.7 Billion....

The contempt motion is on the Court's January 15, 2016 conference calendar, so we should know the results soon after that....

...transferring the operation and management of the HHSC Maui Region health care facilities from the state to Kaiser Permanente....

Real farming, not those 2 acres of various things you’re growing....

Cong Perluisi stated there “. . . . are eight constructive steps the federal government could take,” including the need to “update the Existing Jones Act LNG and LPG Exemption in Puerto Rico” ....

"...a vision of a brighter American future...."

"...expectations for what we will achieve this year are low...."

Last year we were 42nd ....

...the loan would be repaid through revenues generated by a special assessment on the borrowers' real-property tax bills....

To have their coverage effectuated, consumers generally need to pay their first month’s health plan premium. This release does not include totals for effectuated enrollments.....

The legislative session has yet to even begin, and House leaders are already poised to fast-track a set of blanket exemptions for power producers....

State-backed Loans: $89M to Companies Tied to OHA Chair Robert Lindsey....

... DoI Adds 2,000 Pro Fed-Wreck Testimonies -- Many Dated After 12/30 Deadline ....

Statewide, about 18.5% of two-adult couples with no children and 45.5% of two-adult couples with two children had incomes below the self-sufficiency standard....

DHHL pushes funding parity, urges no further delay in funds to beneficiaries....

A case that we've been following with some mild amusement has reached the Hawaii Supreme Court....

...a net increase of $297.6 million in FY 2017, an increase of 4.4%....

AUL’s 2016 Life List Ranks the 50 States Based on How Well Women are Protected from Abortion Industry Abuses....

"...students will learn core principles of science and will see the relevance of community initiatives, such as moving to solar energy, limiting waste, encouraging recycling and reducing water usage with low-flow toilets...."

...the new law incorrectly lumps e-cigarettes and lower-risk smokeless tobacco products in with the much more harmful nicotine cigarettes....

...another vote on Bill 23 (2015), CD1 - Relating to the Transportation Surcharge, will be required of Committee members at the Budget Committee meeting on Wednesday....

Many of Hawaii's political and business leaders are wanna-be dope dealers....soon we will find out which....

On Friday, Governor John Kasich's presidential campaign filed the necessary paperwork to appear on the Hawaii Republican primary ballot....

This morning, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the requirement in California that government employees, such as public school teachers, pay fees to the local union even if they choose not to join the union....

The commission has been meeting since March 2015 and received over 150 proposals for changes to the charter. Fifteen of those proposals have been deferred....

We are only days away from the opening of the Hawaii State Legislature....

This all began in Hawaii in 2011 when Act 195 was passed....

Serious students of history may wonder what is going on. There is, after all, a federal law that prevents Hawaii taxes from touching an airline’s gross income....

Hawaii Business Magazine published in its January 2016 issue an article entitled “Change Agents” profiling four Hawaiian activists and describing their visions for Hawaii....

Implementing K–12 programs in computer, engineering or biomedical science....

I don’t know whether or not I want to cry or scream today....

...the Obama Interior Department’s proposed regulation would be contrary to laws against racial discrimination and would be an unconstitutional end-run around Congress, which has repeatedly rejected legislation granting tribal status to Native Hawaiians....

...DLNR Officer “was fired (from Honolulu PD) in 2013 after he falsified records and lied to investigators about transporting a female runaway, who was underage.”....

Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs....

One of the leases at Banyan Drive has expired and has been placed on a month-to-month revocable permit. Other leases at Banyan Drive and in the Kanoelehua Industrial Area will expire in the next several years....

...Department of Health (DoH) officials faced scathing rebukes for doing their job well....

$104 million in omissions combine with mystery spending cuts to create unrealistic budget scenario....

... states with low levels of support tend to have higher per capita tax collections and populations with lesser reliance on federal assistance ....