Higher daily spending contributed to increased visitor expenditures on Maui (+7.2% to $2.6 billion) and Kaua‘i (+16.3% to $981 million). Visitor expenditures on O‘ahu ($4.2 billion) and Hawai‘i Island ($1.1 billion) were comparable to a year ago....

...Honolulu came in 18th, with 50 hours of delay per commuter, costing $1,125....

... CNHA Takes Reins of DBEDT 'Community Development Accelerator '....

Excepting heavily incentivized research and development (R&D) operations, mature firms generally experience above-average tax costs in Hawaii....

...Company Gets “A Lot” of Intact Fetuses, Calls Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Supply a “Volume Institution”....

The Governor’s Leadership Team has also identified five state-owned portable buildings that can be used to provide temporary shelter for families. Locations for these buildings are currently being considered....

Darryl J. Vincent has been with U.S. VETS, for 11 years....

The oral argument will begin promptly at 8:45 a.m. at the Hawaii State Supreme Court courtroom....

Last year, in a state-wide data collection in collaboration with the HIDOE and HSTA, fellows sought teacher input around the implementation of the Hawai'i Common Core Standards....

... Hu Honua is #1 ....

...Alex Gonzales' dismembered body was discovered along Mililani Memorial Park Rd in September 2013. Gonzales had been stabbed 55 times....

The adjusted cost of living for retired persons in Honolulu is twice as high as it is in Laredo, Texas....

...a federal judge ordered the government return $167,000 law enforcement seized from a motorist driving through Nevada....

...Visualize Chris Butler, a heartbeat away from the Presidency....

...the Hawaii Department of Taxation was able to answer less than half of the phone calls it received....

The judge determined that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued 30 year permits to wind-energy companies without first conducting an environmental-impact assessment....

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O'Donnell ruled on Friday afternoon the Center for Medical Progress has First Amendment rights to release videos it covertly took....

Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, is seeking solutions to the Puerto Rico financial crisis....

In 1959, Governor William Quinn presided over the greatest celebration Hawaii’s people had ever seen....

The storm’s strength and track is highly uncertain at this time....

There were southern politicians who were concerned about adding the territory’s multiethnic population to the Union....

Hawaii celebrates 56 years of statehood with Admission Day this Friday, August 21, 2015....

...light winds have limited production from the two wind farms on the North Shore....

"...we haven’t seen the 5.0 to 6.0 percent economic growth rates experienced during the previous business cycle...."

Legalization is supposed to take marijuana out of the hands of organized crime....

...transitional housing for up to 83 persons in 25 containers by the end of the year....

..."mission creep" could well set in....

... Aug. 26 is Women’s Equality Day ....

"She gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face."

"Community-based nonprofit organizations are increasingly becoming key economic development drivers...."

100 Kauai voters participated ....

Both Schatz and Hirono support the Iran nuke deal ....

The Hawaii defendants are members of the Campaign Spending Commission....

Normally she keeps her cult connections under wraps, but Butler's need to assert himself in internal Krishna politics likely forced her hand on this....

The Travel Technology Association supports formal regulations that legalize short-term rentals....

Our data set ranges from the percentage of adults aged 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher to the attainment gap between women and men....

...assisted-suicide groups are preparing to spend big money in Hawai'i to establish doctor-assisted death next legislative session....

...the survey was undertaken the week of August 3....

With zero experience in getting families off the street....

Students in Hawaii will be subject to sex-ed classes with an emphasis on pregnancy prevention rather than abstinence, whether they or their parents like it or not....

...straight out of a Michael Bloomberg gun-ban training manual....

Reports on the cost vary, with estimates as low as $2 million and as high as $20 million....

"The laws ... do not apply to Na‘i Aupuni" 

Live-Streamed Starting at 2PM today....

...Alvin Katahara said his former boss, UH Foundation Vice President Janet Bullard, ordered him to make thousands of dollars in payments to a company headed by her husband....

...And there aren’t that many shipyards left....

According to a recent PEW survey, 25 percent of people in the last year have change their opinion to a favorable view of vaccines....