Biotechnology innovators rescued the Rainbow papaya in Hawaii from extinction. Now activists want to strangle this innovation....

all 32 charter schools and the State Public Charter School Commission...completed the execution of the first charter school performance contracts in the state’s history....

the Administration is delaying the employer mandate, which would force businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide government-approved insurance, until 2015....

both of the objectives mentioned by the US Energy Secretary are harder to achieve in Hawai‘i....

rising food and housing costs, a challenged public school system and few professional opportunities in a tourist-driven economy....

overcharged Medicare for a back procedure known as "kyphoplasty" using a fraudulent billing scheme first exposed by two whistleblowers....

The announcement follows the release last Thursday of a report by the National Parks Service (NPS) that was critical of the division’s efforts....

fingerprint, photograph and background checks for those bringing firearms into Hawaii....

Evacuation time, 10 hours....

Out of nowhere, all of sudden, OHA has an appetite for equity investments into high risk privately owned enterprises....

The truly “big news,” Slater said: Hawaii’s ranking at No. 49 for administrative costs per mile....

“It is a terrible time to be a journalist,” ...  Portnoy was referring to the Obama administration’s secret subpoenas for journalists’ phone and Internet records, as well as the US DoJ secret investigation into Associated Press and Fox News reporters....

Up to 5,000 new apartment and condominium units are being planned by the HCDA in Kakaako....

five states, on average, showed the smallest percentage premium increase by adding a teen driver to an existing auto policy: Hawaii — 18%, North Carolina — 59%....

At the bottom were Alaska, Rhode Island, Hawaii, California and New Jersey....

The number of veterans waiting more than a year to receive benefits jumped from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 by December 2012....

Justice Anthony Kennedy argued last week that the only reason Congress had for passing the Defense of Marriage Act was to “disparage,” “injure,” “degrade,” “demean,” and “humiliate” others....

"Lowering customers’ costs by accelerating development of low-cost, fast track utility-scale renewable energy projects...."

On Thursday, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate introduced a conservative alternative to No Child Left Behind (NCLB)....