Proposed constitutional amendments for longer sessions die every year in a Legislature that has no affinity for letting the ...

A story recounted by Hawaiʻi’s final king bears a message: True welcome is not erasure. It’s exchange.

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Hawaiʻi’s natural beauty is essentially a resource curse. So much money is to be made in the visitor industry it crowds out ...

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Some council members voted with reservations and expressed frustration at how the process has pitted members of the community ...

Only about 700 koloa maoli remain in the wild and are centered on Kauaʻi. A team of researchers is trying to reestablish the ...

Nobody talked to corrections officers about the problem. Involving the guards was forbidden in that part of the jail. Instead ...

Kauaʻi's efforts to recruit a new chief come as Honolulu and Hawaiʻi island wage their own searches for a new top cop.

The housing authority plans to knock down three sections of the low-income housing complex on Oʻahu, replacing them with a ...

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