Currently, six of the branch’s 11 positions remain vacant, and we found that the branch’s two remaining inspectors can only perform eight of the branch’s 15 key regulatory functions....

...these parcels will add approximately 22,500 acres of land to the 1,700 acres of Galbraith Estate agricultural land in Central Oahu....

...it could fire rockets on Guam, Hawaii and the U.S. mainland in retaliation for American bomber sorties....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Fiscal 2013 Continuing Appropriations
• Senate: Fiscal 2014 Senate Budget Resolution
• House: FY 2014 Budget Resolution
• House: FY 2013 Continuing Appropriations

...how much is too much when it comes to spending on government programs....

...Please share these impacts to mark three years of this bureaucratic nightmare.... 

...Monday at 10:30 a.m. in conference room 016, the Hawaii Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor will hear testimony on SR 123 and SCR 166....

...As part of the settlement, Hawaiian Electric Company agreed to write off $40 million in costs for two major projects: the 110-megawatt biofuel generating station at Campbell Industrial Park and the companies’ new customer information system.... 

Funcheon brought by two additional sexual abuse victims at Damien Memorial School in Honolulu. Funcheon, who worked at Damien Memorial School in the early 1980’s, has been accused of sexual abuse by three Hawaii men and more than two dozen men on the mainland.... 

...A wonderful opportunity to build private-public partnerships is quickly becoming a veiled blow to religious freedom in Hawaii.  Very shortly, it seems, some of our preschools and kindergartens may have to choose between funding and the practice of faith....