"The Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) has aligned its reform efforts and internal systems and processes to leverage progress toward outcomes...."

On college campuses fear of offending people now trumps the fear of losing free speech....

...The City Council deleted funding for the Office of Strategic Development (OSD) positions needed to address homelessness and the affordable housing crisis....

...Ige will join other elected officials and business leaders for the Washington Post’s “Powering Cities” forum on Tuesday, June 23...

HHIC Insights Medicare report illustrates the impact of the numerous Medicare payment cuts to Hawaii’s hospitals and how it would be potentially exacerbated by additional cuts proposed by Congress....

Our data set includes 23 key metrics, such as age, gender and income as well as household makeup and housing tenure....

It's a fine balance, and until the Hawaii Supreme Court's recent decision in Kellberg v. Yuen, and the Intermediate Court of Appeals' decision in Hoku Lele, LLC v. City and County of Honolulu....

Public hearings will be held in American Samoa, CNMI and Guam on July 6, 13 and 15, respectively....

...new leaders are appointed to key state offices....

...TMT International Observatory Board has decided to move ahead to restart the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the morning of Wednesday, June 24....

...we don’t want to inflict a disproportionate amount of pain on our friends....

...it is OK that their plan would gut the tourism industry because it would also drive Hawaii's cost of living up to the point where residents could no longer afford to leave....

... two draft replies--one labeled "the truth" and the other labeled "option 2" ....

A prominent European politician has urged the region's shipowners to get behind important trade talks....

...the median district in states like Hawaii, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming is more than 70% to 30% for the majority party....

...A total of 1,217 homeless refusing shelter have been added to Hawaii's homeless population in the last two years....

Recently increased enforcement by the Commission has made the ethics code come to life and reach beyond the mere platitudes it was in the past when enforcement of the code was a rare exception....

...Hawaii’s employees earn 9 percent more than those in the private sector—the 3rd highest wages and salaries ratio in the country....