...51st for Annual Nursing Salary (Adj for Cost of Living)....

...CNHA’s Board Officers are actively engaged in the organization’s executive search after current President, Michelle Kauhane, announced her departure in early March....

...a strong connection between sea surface temperature patterns associated with the Global Warming Hiatus phenomenon and changes in cyclone activity over the northwest Pacific....

...The 2018 Legislature will adjourn on Thursday, May 3....

...attorneys filed complaint over violations of federal conscience protections....

...Akina and Moore discuss what Hawaii's citizens can expect in the 2018 elections, and how the results matter....

...In an effort to clean its environment, China has restricted recyclable commodities and set strict contamination limits. The E-Cycling program cites this shift in the worldwide recycling commodities market for local restrictions....

...Would the delegation have chastised Obama if he had stuck to his ultimatum and struck Syria after Assad crossed Obama’s infamous “red line in the sand?”....

...Pearl City ranks 178th--5th highest--for Labor Costs....

...The Court’s 1997 ruling on the majority required to call a state constitutional convention was a travesty of justice....

... Kauai poi farmers are appealing to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) for financial aid.  Are cash payouts reserved for insiders? ....

...HB 2432, one of the bills actively being considered this session, proposes to hike the “transient occupancy tax,” or TOT, by an as-yet-unspecified amount....

...Federal Recognition advocate Esther Kiaaina and William Aila....

...Largely due to the Tesla solar-plus-storage facility that opened in March 2017, KIUC added 415.3 watts of storage per customer in 2017, more than eight times as much storage as second place honoree Tucson Electric Power....

...HB2169 Maui County Suicide Prevention Bill heads for floor votes....

...If signed into law, SB3095 will have Hawaii restaurants crawling with cockroaches--this should be almost as good for tourism as the homeless tent cities Hanabusa is planning....

...On April 25th, the Hawaii state Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 2046....

...Kim and South Korean leader Moon Jae In pledged earlier today in Panmunjom to negotiate a treaty to formally end the Korean War and also to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula....

...look at how transparency goes by the wayside at the end of the session....

...This solution has passed the House before, but not yet in the Senate; however, this time the provision is included in a major bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration....