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Furlough Fridays would be gone, marijuana for medical purposes would be taxed $30 an ounce and gas-powered leaf blowers would be outlawed in...

Hawaii received $125.7 million of the $26.6 billion allotted nationwide for highways under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the W...

Scientists acknowledged they overstated the threat but defended their actions, saying they took the proper steps and learned the lessons of ...

Tourists lined the lanais of high-rise hotels and sightseers clustered along Hawaii's cliffside highways to take in the spectacle of a ...

Oahu Publications Inc. has agreed to purchase The Honolulu Advertiser, the state's dominant newspaper, and sell or merge the rival Honol...

The state House Finance Committee agreed last night to defer a bill that would have allowed a casino on O'ahu, as lawmakers discarded ga...

Hawai'i's economic difficulties may be abating, with the state saying there are signs that certain sectors may hit bottom this year ...

A new version of the native Hawaiian government reorganization bill is moving in the U.S. House, but Gov. Linda Lingle remains opposed to it...

Sunday Governor Linda Lingle met with the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to talk about Honolulu's rail project. President Barack Oba...

A version of the Akaka bill could be up for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House next week. Legislation aimed at lessening the increase e...

The state House is considering a measure that would temporarily increase general excise and use taxes by a percentage point, to 5 percent, i...

Thousands of visitors today are expected to pour into the first phase of a new USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center, designed to replace the ...

It's Hollywood in Hawaii, as the Black Pearl arrives.  That's the ship featured in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films. ...

After months negotiating with a landowner, Hawaii County has almost finalized the paperwork to buy a property labeled the top priority for p...

Hawaii’s sandalwood industry is long gone. Even sugar operations are a distant memory. For now, tourism is the industry in Hawaii. Ten yea...

The Big Island's e-waste recycling centers are becoming graveyards for illegally dumped computers, televisions, microwaves and printers....

Fires are burning on the Big Island of Hawaii as a surge of lava pulses down slope through as many as six tubes, threatening the last remain...

If you thought the Hawaii Superferry issue was gone, you may be wrong. The House Transportation Committee approved a bill yesterday to st...

The state Senate is set to discuss a bill Monday to privatize Hawaii Health Systems Corp. as a nonprofit organization. For some legislativ...

The rainy season here is falling so far short of normal this year that Hawaii is the only state with a National Weather Service assessment ...