...out of $668.1 million in tax credits claimed in tax year 2011, the Service disallowed only $11 million, and failed to find a single case of fraud....

At least half of seniors have incomes below 200 percent of poverty in 10 states and DC based on the supplemental measure: DC (59%); California (56%); Hawaii (55%)....

1,413 Hawaii borrowers who submitted a valid foreclosure payment claim through the National Mortgage Settlement will receive a check this month for approximately $1,480

Former Hawaii Republican Party Executive Director Dylan Nonaka has a notable, but certainly not relished, distinction....

Dr. Kelli Akina, the new CEO of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and former OHA trustee candidate, addressed the Conservative Forum for Hawaii at the Naniloa Hotel Crown Room in Hilo....

...Bob Fletcher, who saved farms of interned Japanese Americans, dies at 101....

Excluding the refund of MECO revenues attributed to 2012, the EPS guidance range would be $0.02 higher....

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...Requesting HPD to open additional firearms sections in Kapolei and Kaneohe....

The platform includes 2.2 million layers of information, and it will continue to grow ... That is the Exemplary State idea....

examine efforts of other state and municipal governments in implementing their business and information technology transformations....

Online less than two weeks, the petition has 2,935 signatures....

“This is the transparent process initiated by the City Council and approved by voters last year."

one model out of the 12 is consistent with the proxy-inferred patterns of the rainfall changes....

The Medicare program that provides health insurance to seniors faces a dire financial future.  And Obamacare is making it worse....

The FCC order exposes more information on Hee than has ever before been made public....

One issue that has irritated lawmakers for the past few years is the ability to transfer ownership of companies or organizations that have substantial holdings of real estate without having to pay the conveyance tax....

...a mandate to cut the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%.....

...there are more than enough actual threats to the Second Amendment to keep gun owners busy....

The fixed guideway and stations directly overlay the 1825 trails....

Right now there is a race to see how fast Kakaako can be sold and developed before the mainland and foreign real estate investors find out they will be stuck with enormous future expenses....

I Aloha Molokai looks at bottom up planning ....

the United States has blown past Russia to become the world's largest producer of natural gas, and America will shortly occupy the number one position in oil production as well....

Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Collins Kilgore ordered Ope Saaga to pay $407,003.93 in restitution to consumers and $3.86 million in civil penalties....

The America’s Health Rankings Senior Report finds that Hawaii has its share of strengths and challenges for senior health....

a “huge, politically inspired environmental agenda” which would impose significant costs on the industry at a time when it could least afford them....

Hawaii’s move to give equal waiting to middle-class students and those lumped into its “high-needs subgroup” could obscure how poorly districts and schools are doing in helping the latter achieve success....

...the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed three tree snail species and 35 plant species on the island cluster of Maui Nui in Hawaii as endangered ....

...part of the Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process, which looks at how the utilities will meet future energy needs....

biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....

Whenever Congress throws too much into one bill, special interests profit....

Michelle Kauhane, senior vice president of CNHA and former deputy director of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, will succeed her....

FACE continued claiming to represent residents through its support group OH-NO as late as the October 2012 Budget Cmte meeting, four months after the state administratively dissolved OH-NO....

....special use permits – with specific use conditions -- for non-commercial recreational use of kayaks, stand-up paddle boards and one-person canoes....