Dick Mayer is a retired University of Hawaiʻi Maui College professor of economics and geography, a former Maui Planning Commissioner and vice-chair of Maui’s General Plan Advisory Committee. Decision ...

The state Department of Defense relies on $88 million of federal funding for general operations including the National Guard ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a non-partisan group that monitors colleges, has stepped in to support ...

Large, costly upgrades are underway for the Kailua treatment plant. But unsafe bacteria levels continue to crop up after ...

According to a recent report by Pacaso, a real estate firm, Maui’s second-home ownership numbers equal 42.9% of ...

The Kauaʻi delegation, which includes for the first time the speaker of the House and the Senate president, also wants to ...

A 29-year-old man is the fifth person to die from the fireworks explosion in a Honolulu neighborhood on New Year’s Eve. The ...

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A recent series of stories published by Civil Beat, Guardians Of The Deep, took readers to the vast protected place known as ...

From left, U.S. Sen. Brian Shatz, Gov. Josh Green and HUD Regional Administrator Jason Pu celebrate Hawaiʻiʻs receipt of a $6 ...

Kamalani Academy is set to become the third charter school shut down by the state since the launch of Hawai‘i’s charter ...

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