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News Flash! Tip of the hat to Robert H. Thomas for getting us the opinion fast: http://www.inversecondemnation.com/files/07-1372-1.pdf U.S. ...

HONOLULU -- Clean elections advocates have launched a video contest to get the word out about two initiatives currently being considered in ...

So, what’s it gonna be? Governor or Congress- man? By 10 a.m. Saturday, it will all become clear. Or as clear as politics gets, anyway. A fe...

HONOLULU – There is a saying that no bill is dead while the Legislature is in session, and one establishing civil unions is no exception. Bu...

HONOLULU -- Car alarms, leaf blowers, construction. Neighborhood bars. Motorcycles. Noise pollution is a big problem on Oahu, and every year...

HONOLULU -- Hawaii banks are more solid than financial institutions in most other states, according to an online comparison project created ...

Hawaii isn’t the best or the worst, but is smack in the middle of a recent report rating states on the openness of government documents. The...

By Edwin Bender Our democracy's infrastructure is crumbling, just as our roads, water systems and sewers are deteriorating across the co...

She had the great misfortune to have been born a girl in the waning days of the Yi Dynasty in Korea, and so her parents named her Regret. Fo...

Q: Did the idea for Honolulu come out of your research for your previous book, Moloka’i ? A: In a way. One of the most colorful period...

HONOLULU – State government is going to make do with a whole lot less, under steep budget cuts passed today by the House Finance Committee. ...

HONOLULU -- Hawaii farmers and ranchers are getting a new incentive to protect environmentally sensitive lands, with the announcement today ...

HONOLULU – Hawaii may become the 10th state in the nation to allow same-day voter registration, thanks to a bill that passed the state Senat...

HONOLULU – A compromise giving the Legislature final approval over the sale of ceded lands is moving forward, even as the highest court in t...

HONOLULU -- No money? Just go home, already. That’s the message Hawaii will be sending to some of the state’s thousands of homeless -- at l...

HONOLULU -- It’s not a good time to be a smoker. State lawmakers are scrounging about in a tough budget year, looking for spare cash that wi...

HONOLULU -- More than 300 people chanted, danced, blew conch shells and beat drums in the Capitol Rotunda starting at 4 a.m. and continuing ...

There were shakas all around when Gov. Linda Lingle and President Obama got together for a photo op Sunday night, one of two meetings the go...