But let’s pretend we were able to stop emitting all carbon immediately...The Science and Public Policy Institute found that the global temperature would decrease by 0.17 degrees Celsius—by 2100.

... thankfully “Our country has changed” ....

... there is no longer a national definition of marriage ....

Gabbard steps from the dais, and audience members rush to hug her and urge her to run for governor....

Bargaining Unit 14, to represent state law enforcement officers, and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers....

Nishimura was the highest-ranking Honolulu police officer charged with a federal felony offense....

Electricity demand in Hawaii is among the lowest in the country....

If President Obama’s proposed power plant emissions controls are enacted, it will destroy utilities burning coal, hike energy costs while making zero impact on earth’s climate...

The Senate voted yesterday to advance the Gang of Eight’s “comprehensive” immigration bill....

Adding more density will cause the central road network to seize.... 

Most of these bills are potentially objectionable because of concerns, raised by state departments or agencies, reflected in testimonies provided during the hearing process...

The 2013 Manufacturing and Logistics National Report shows how each state ranks....

Terry Lock has accepted a position with the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education....

Saturday, June 29, at 10 a.m. at Washington Middle School, King St. at Punahou....

The KIDS COUNT index includes child-level indicators across four domains....

[M]ost of the specs have been written, but the all wiring hasn't been laid, and what will happen when they flip the switch nobody really knows....

Each year, approximately one to four sperm whale carcasses drift ashore in Hawaii....

• Senate: Froman Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: U.S. Immigration Policy – Motion to Table Cornyn Amendment
• House: Abortion Ban – Passage
• House: Farm Bill – Passage

UNFAIR: More than 4 million people are waiting to come to the US legally....

In response to Hawaii Democrats' suit to close their primary, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, columnist David Shapiro and Luxury Resort Developer Pierre Omidyar’s Civil Beat have all editorialized in favor of Hawaii adopting California’s ‘Top Two’ primary system....

The reaction to last week’s commentary could only be described as shrill....

The Kailua High School team currently is in Federal Way, Wash., where the competition is running from June 20 to 22....

This all could have been avoided by a rail route further inland, such as along H-1....

adds down payment, closing cost and other assistance as a program feature....

The Council dealt with the imbalance by “cutting approximately one-half of the funding that is required to fill vacant positions”.....

According to The Guardian, 98 percent of the 32 million displacements were due to climate change....

...the suit, against the County of Maui seeks immediate changes to County laws that prohibit people from displaying signs on sidewalks and along roadways....

Sixty-two Republicans bucked their own party to vote against the bloated bill....Coupled with a large bloc of Democrats (Including Hanabusa and Gabbard) who wanted more spending on food stamps....

A Medscape survey found 6 percent of physicians in the cash-only business in 2013, up from 4 percent in 2012. Most are primary care doctors....

60% of all shipbuilding and repairing revenue is from U.S. military sources....

the policy statement on the DOH Website is causing the VA to balk at home loans and re-fi’s for thousands of homes with catchment systems....

Allotment of funds for the following priority projects has been approved by the Governor....

...the state has a constitutionally mandated “balanced budget requirement,” but that’s based on “an outdated cash-based accounting model that recognizes expenses when they are paid instead of when they are incurred”....

the food stamp program has doubled under the Obama Administration....

7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 25 Kapolei High School Cafeteria....

There are currently nine youths between the ages of 13-17 in the Wrap Hawai‘i pilot program....

...it actually wouldn’t be as big of a political risk within her own party because of his first-term troubles....

Combined, the projects have committed to sell electricity to Hawaiian Electric at an average price of 15.9 cents per kilowatt-hour. This is ... the current cost of generating electricity from oil....

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has set August 15, 2013 as the date for oral arguments in our appeal of Judge A. Wallace Tashima's rulings....

within 5 years, half or more of them will be out of business....

The recipients named today independently developed the science of modern plant biotechnology, opening doors to improved agricultural crops that can feed the world more effectively and sustainably...

Here’s how they do business. A piece of legislation is going to cost trillions of dollars, but Members of Congress don’t want the public to see that....