...the cover of Time magazine foretold of a "world without bees"....

...the first increase in extramural award funding after three straight years of decline....

Hawaii is among the states with the lowest rates in the country of foster children who were re-abused within six months of being reunited with their families....

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...design-build has a single point of responsibility....

Children from households with income at or below the following levels are eligible for free or reduced-price meals....

OHA authorized the funds and OHA invited the participants to form Nai Aupuni....

...and Detroit ranks 14th....

President of PPFA Medical Directors’ Council Mary Gatter Doesn’t Want to “Lowball” Price, Suggests “Less Crunchy” Technique, Says She Wants a Lamborghini....

“The high cost of living in Hawaii amplifies the hardship that many of our low-income and poor families face...."

2015 may go down in the books as the year support for renewable energy died....

Residential customers now pay roughly $0.17/kWh for fixed costs....

Moriguchi was born and raised on O‘ahu and has worked in education for more than 15 years. She has served as an educational specialist at the state Department of Education....

This is the same issue that spurred the founding in Hawaii of the Jones Act Reform Coalition (JARC) in the mid-1990’s....

"The Association Board has scheduled an invitation to meet with a native Hawaiian entrepreneur currently operating out of Arizona and Las Vegas...."

...Kaiser policy said it would cover 80 percent of the cost of medically necessary emergency transportation services, Kaiser denied most of it, leaving him with a $36,000 balance due....

“We are looking for an individual who ... supports rail transit ...” said HART Board Chairman Ivan Lui-Kwan....

...fuel taxes are "highly regressive," meaning that they hurt the poor the most....

Monday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Pagoda Hotel’s International Ballroom....

"...will instead concentrate on the PUC's pending Power Supply Improvement Plan (PSIP) docket, which is better suited to address transformational planning issues...."

“On Dec. 1, Hawaiian sovereignty activists lowered the American flag on the single pole at the front entrance to the UH-Hilo campus and hoisted the Hawaii state flag that previously flew beneath."

Family caregivers in Hawaii provided 144 million hours of care – worth an estimated $2.1 billion....

Since October, 2014 more than 15,000 applications have been approved to install or interconnect....

...NEXT MEETING: Monday, July 20, 2015--NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council is being held from 9am-5pm at the Pagoda Hotel and is open to the public....

Each month, this customer will receive credit for a share of the electricity output of the community solar facility and pay a small maintenance fee, in total reducing the customer’s electric bill by about 45 percent....

One common way public employees increase their pensions is by maximizing overtime....

DCCA Cable Television Divison received an application from Charter Communications, Inc. and Time Warner Cable, Inc....

The excise tax is an investment by the taxpayers of Hawai‘i and my job is to ensure that their hard earned money is being spent efficiently, effectively and productively....

We will make a good faith effort to create a fair process that will help the people most in need (of weed)....

KIUC has also heard complaints from members who are now paying more for their rooftop solar than their previous electric bill....

It could be the most significant change in Hawaii since statehood.  Three-quarters of native Hawaiians are effectively excluded from the process--as are all non-Hawaiians.  Included: Lots of incarcerated prisoners, dead people, and people living on the mainland....

...the deeper you dig, the more fraud you find in the case against GMOs....

The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison....

...Ige today vetoed eight bills and sent his statements of objections to the house and senate leadership....

These map changes, primarily for Kaunakakai and south shore areas of Molokai, and Kihei and Waikapu areas on Maui, will become effective on November 4, 2015....

As part of the Interior Department’s leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Outside initiative to engage the next generation of outdoor stewards....

...a unique view of societies’ progress on the elements that matter most to well-being: purpose, social, financial, community and physical....

...the threat of losing NEM has led some in the PV industry down the path of hyperbole, exaggeration and self-interested fear-mongering....

originally published May, 2005, reprinted in honor of Al Hee being found guilty on all counts....

The Visitor Information Station and its restroom facilities will remain closed....

Mizumoto is CEO of Central Pacific Bank....

On July 9, Governor Ige signed Senate Bill 555, which will increase the food/excise tax credit for the first time in nearly a decade....

The average monthly consumption of electricity per housing unit in Louisiana is triple that in Hawaii....

The very first check on the very first page of OHA's 2014-2015 fiscal year is $25,000 written to convicted felon and mortgage scammer, David Keanu Sai....