Lawmakers want a hotel built at Hilo's airport to meet the housing needs of the Merrie Monarch festival while longer-term efforts to revitalize the once-thriving tourist district continue.

It’s well signposted and doesn’t look all that bad, but crossing over the bump and dip at a gentle curve on southbound Kamehameha Highway near Kualoa Regional Park is not pleasant. A 30-inch water ...

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Let’s encourage and subsidize rooftop solar but also recognize that 69% of the island’s power comes from burning oil.

A man with a history of mental illness was held at the Oʻahu jail and Hawaiʻi State Hospital for nearly three years after police mistook him for a wanted felon.

Plans for several new military telescopes atop the mountain are drawing strong opposition. But protests over other Maui ...

Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm said officers did not know the gun that Eric Walsh pointed at them was a replica that didn't fire bullets.

The county subsidized rentals in an office building 30 feet away on the same property, but overlooked illegal units in the adjacent poi factory.

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Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

Fragility, in an island state, is not a metaphor. It is geography.

Hawaiʻi’s total annual long-term care service bill now exceeds $3.2 billion; $2.3 Billion of that borne by more than 160,000 unpaid caregivers.