• Senate: Farm Bill – Passage
• House: FY 2014 Defense Authorization – Passage

daily usage was only 492 gallons when he says the Board of Water Supply's estimated usage was pegged at 2,500....

Nearly a year and a half ago, a commission appointed by the Honolulu City Council to study some of the inequities in the real property tax ordinance dropped its findings on the desks of Council members....

Despite this assurance, the record also reveals that the parties also made jokes about being “locked up” because of these games....

State Land Conservation Fund to support the protection, through acquisition, of lands....

the State of Hawaii's attempted land grab would have undermined the sanctity of all Land Court titles....

Sen. Sam Slom was the guest speaker at the Tea Party Maui meeting Thursday where Jim Wagoner was elected president of the organization....

The Chief Justice, with the consent of the Senate, shall fill a vacancy in the district courts....

Asian American population rose by 530,000, or 2.9 percent, in the preceding year, to 18.9 million....

By 2017, Hawaii is facing Medicare Home Healthcare payment at least 11.7% below cost, and up to 27.8% below cost....

the City will be awarding non profit Grants in Aid, totaling about $5.5 million for this upcoming fiscal year....

They soon settled into a formerly government-owned hotel where other foreign missions and international journalists were lodged, but had to move when a car bomb exploded in the hotel parking lot....

...Boehner said yesterday that he will support the bloated farm bill....

... HHA continues to meet, without a budget, working on developing a universal, cost-effective health care system that will be ready for implementation when the Affordable Care Act inevitably fails....

SATURDAY, JUNE 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and SUNDAY, JUNE 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the KOKO HEAD SHOOTING COMPLEX....

The Senate voted yesterday to move forward on the Gang of Eight’s immigration plan—which would grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants....

Opponents have argued that Native Hawaiians are not “Indians”....

Honolulu rings up the biggest tab as the most expensive U.S. destination with a TripIndex cost of $504.94, while Las Vegas offers the most affordable stay at $272.94...

As the federal government’s financial condition worsens, states will likely have to pick up even more of the cost....

A study of Hawaii's requirement that firms provide insurance to those working at least 20 hours a week found a slight increase in the share of workers falling below that threshold after the requirement went into effect....

...the prevalence of traditional pensions appears to be a major reason Hawaii leads our study in replacement income....

• Senate: Student Loan Rates Bill – Cloture
• Senate: Student Loan Rates Bill – Cloture
• House: FY2014 Military Construction & Veterans Affairs Appropriations – Passage
• House: FY2014 Homeland Security Appropriations – Amendment Vote
• House: FY2014 Homeland Security Appropriations – Passage

The Department of Human Services (DHS) is implementing a state-of-the-art eligibility system, integrated with The Connector....

When asked about the high price of living in Hawaii, people often retort with the fatalistic, “That’s the price of living in paradise.”  Dr. Keli’i Akina does not agree....

The spike in food prices, coupled with the global economic crisis, halted and even reversed the long-time trend in reducing malnutrition....

The Obama Administration has a few problems....

Recently the Chair of the House Finance Committee announced that she will be reviewing the practice of setting up special funds....

Nearly 1,100 pastors nationwide registered to speak out on marriage as part of annual Alliance Defending Freedom event....

Abercrombie’s office quietly slipped two more executive orders onto its webpage this week....