"... Financially Valuable Lands .... "

At least two concrete columns have developed cracks and have had to be replaced....

...teachers are in essence nomads with no classroom to call their own; they must float to any open space....

...earnings for small business employees adjusted for cost of living are three times higher in the Houston metro area than in the Honolulu metro area....

Eligible voters were mailed passcodes they may use to access their digital ballots; they have until May 15 to submit them....

These states could struggle to secure prosperity in the coming decade....

...The Senate says 'yes' to marijuana and 'no' to anti-GMO protesters....

Outshipments of seed are projected to total 7.97 million pounds during the 2013-14 season, down 3 percent from the revised 8.25 million pounds shipped during the previous season....

...legislative priorities are out-of-touch with reality....

Senate 21-4 : House 39-12

...If you come home from a party after drinking, or you are on narcotics recovering from surgery, and go to bed with your loaded self defense gun in a bedside drawer or lockbox, you could be charged....

This public comment period runs from May 4, 2015 through May 15, 2015....

Hawaii ranks 50th – Monthly Median Starting Salary for Nurses, Adjusted for Cost of Living....

...once you tally up the separate appropriation bills the current spending plan is almost identical to the Governor's initial budget request....

...provide a total of eight dispensary licenses statewide, three in Honolulu, two on Maui County and Hawaii Island, and one on Kauai. Each dispensary licensee would have the option to open up to two retail locations.... 

... July 1, 2011 through July 9, 2013, Sasao collected eleven payments from various probationers that had been assigned to him and kept the payments for his own use....

"In total, Mr. Waikiki’s schemes scammed up to 21 victims for more than $100,000.00.”

...The median women’s salary (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Virginia than in Hawaii....

• House: Fiscal 2016 Military Construction - VA Appropriations - Passage
• House: D.C. Reproductive Health Law - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Energy-Water Appropriations - Passage

...Total federal income tax breaks from 2008 through 2012: $4.2 billion....

A few days ago, the United States Tax Court decided a case that is important to small business owners....

...$20 million in capital improvement projects (CIP) funding and $8 million in operating funds....

The term of office of a circuit judge shall be ten years. The annual salary in Hawaiʻi of a circuit judge is $193,248....

Hawaii averages 6.28 hours of sleep ....

“The proposed bill will give the state the beach front property around Kawela Bay in fee simple for $35 million...."

Before signing a long-term lease, ask yourself some questions....

Read detailed Hospital Safety Scores for nine Hawaii Hospitals ...

...when people can resort to this kind of behavior, it really shows that they are not capable of considering the consequences of their actions....

NOAA is often influenced by the large environmental lobbies that have no personal stake in the region....

DHHL is pursuing claims for damages against SORT, which includes but is not limited to the cost to clean-up and remediate the property, in an action currently pending in the First Circuit Court....

Watch HART try to pitch a Property Tax hike in order to make the GE tax seem palatable....

Joe McIlhaney, MD is the Founder and Chairman of The Medical Institute for Sexual Health....

...77 separate contributions by Navatek or by employees linked to Navatek made to elected officials totaling $81,000....

... But the Maui News isn't so sure it still won't be sabotaged....

All voting is done online or by phone. Registered voters will receive a ballot in the mail including a passcode they will need to use in order to access their digital ballot. This passcode was mailed out on April 23, 2015....

House Appoints Conferees, Conference Committee to meet Tues 5PM....

"Whenever there is a new product, whether it be powdered alcohol or e-cigarettes, we want to jump on it, and ban it."

...the number of self-employed Americans is expected to rise to more than 60 million by 2020....

Having two accidents in the last two years on your record is the most costly traffic violation....

The survey asks participants about how possible OHA stances on the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope affects their views regarding OHA....

I lived as a woman for eight years....

...will be updated daily, shortly after decisions are made in the Conference Committee budget meetings....

• Senate: Human Trafficking Victims' Fund - Passage
• Senate: Lynch Nomination – Cloture
• House: Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards – Passage

...these efforts were unsuccessful largely as a result of federal and state regulators seeking to impose financial penalties and conditions on buyers and teach-out partners....

...Exchanges run by the federal government both retained a higher percentage of 2014 enrollees and enrolled a higher percentage of new enrollees in 2015 than states that run their own exchanges....