Since Stepping Down, Former Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Oswald Stender Hasn't Minced Words....

...currently, the state pension plan is only about 61% funded....

Candidates may apply online at www.honolulu.gov/nco ....

Hawaii remains at the bottom of the list for voter registration and turnout....

Tuesday, January 27th at 6:30 p.m. during the Church with No Walls service at Nanaikapono Protestant Church....

3,500 is far short of the 130,000 cited by Kissel in a Nov 28 Star-Adv interview as a break-even figure for the Connector....

...to design and test health care payment and service delivery models that will improve health care quality and lower costs....

Benjamin has served on the Hawaiʻi Board since 2007 and has worked closely with Conservancy staff....

...Any Oahu resident who will be at least 18 years of age by February 20, 2015 can be a candidate....

The city has prepared the real property assessment notices for 2015, and the total assessed valuation of all taxable real property on Oahu has increased from $200.74 billion to $214.90 billion....

...The study examines environmental costs for cars' entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries....

...resulting in employers paying $50 million less in taxes, or $100 less per employee on average for 2015....

...it's jarring that the first order of business under new leadership is to challenge OIP's solid ruling that seeks to keep OHA's business transparent....

• Senate: Fiscal 2015 Omnibus Appropriations - Motion to Concur
• House: Fiscal 2015 Omnibus Appropriations - Passage

Study sheds new light on e-cigarette behaviors in teens as regulators consider curbing sales to minors....

NextEra paid just $88 million in taxes on earnings of nearly $7 billion. That’s a tax rate of just 1.25 percent when the statutory rate is 35 percent....

...when a Hawaii taxpayer reaches $200,000 in federal adjusted gross income, a number of bad things happen that, in total, can result in a marginal tax rate of 367,100% on that last dollar....

...ordered by the college administration to stop handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day....

From 2009 to 2011, he served as the FBI liaison officer to a counter-narcotics task force at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii. In 2012, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division....