This year marks the 200th anniversary of King Kamehameha's unification of the Hawaiian Islands, and Honolulu festivities that kick off today to celebrate the monarch will be accordingly bigger, breathing new life into gatherings that have in recent years struggled to secure funding and volunteers.
With the theme “E Ho‘okahi Ka Mana‘o, Ho‘okahi Pu‘uwai, Ho‘okahi Ke Aloha” (Be of one mind, one heart, one love), Lahaina’s Na Kamehameha Commemorative Pa‘u Parade and Ho‘olaule‘a will be held Saturday, June 12.
The public owns lands formed along the Hawaii's shoreline decades ago that are now above the beaches, according to a Hawaii Supreme Court ruling this week that left intact a lower court's decision.
Most sectors of Hawaii's economy are starting to grow again but it will take years to recover the tens of thousands of jobs that were wiped out during the recession.
Six more Hawaii state parks will soon begin charging parking or entry fees to visitors and tour companies
Hawaii is planning to lay power cables along the ocean floor to connect yet-to-be-built wind farms on the gusty and rural islands of Molokai and Lanai to power-hungry Oahu.
The state administration is moving ahead with its long term plans to use less imported oil to meet Oahu's power needs.
Honolulu City Council members said a proposed ban on smoking at Oahu bus stops will address a loophole in city law.
Plumes of smoke began billowing into the air in the subdivision of Ocean View late Thursday afternoon.
Maui firefighters appeared to have gained the upper hand Wednesday in battling a wild-land blaze that had consumed an estimated 5,800 acres of brush in the West Maui Mountains above Maalaea.
The state's leading business organization is urging Gov. Linda Lingle to veto House Bill 444, the civil unions measure.
Hawaii County's first Furlough Friday is just three weeks away, and department heads are attempting to minimize the effect on the public.
Big Island taxpayers spent $470,000 extinguishing three fires in South Kona earlier this year, Fire Chief Darryl Oliveira said Wednesday.
Nearly four years after earthquakes damaged West Hawaii reservoirs, the completion date for one of the most severely damaged locations has been pushed back -- again.
In October, Hawaiian Airlines will begin a twice-weekly, nonstop service between Kahului and Las Vegas
The farm-worker-housing bill seemed to have reached the end of its rope Wednesday.
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