The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s $968.3 million budget package will roll for fiscal year 2026. The City Council on Wednesday voted 8-0, with Council…
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New state legislation likely will upend the city’s plan to close its current solid-waste landfill in West Oahu and replace it with one near Wahiawa,…
On Tuesday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would no longer recommend offering the COVID-19…
Vast data exists on conditions of Hawaii’s economy, but the state is about to lose a powerful human base of economic knowledge benefiting local consumers,…
Former UFC lightweight champion Jay Dee “B.J.” Penn III was arrested twice this week for allegedly assaulting his 79-year-old mother amid a dispute where the…
An upcoming increase in the state hotel room tax of less than 1% — or $3 more per night for a $400 room — won’t…
The City and County of Honolulu’s financial relief effort for small businesses negatively affected by ongoing construction of the over-$10 billion Skyline project is on…
Everyone who stays in a Hawaii hotel, cruise ship or other lodging beginning Jan. 1 will pay an extra $3 for every $400 in overnight…
Hawaii continues to rank among the nation’s top states for low unemployment. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in April remained at 2.9% for the second…
Some 41% of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine’s 2025 graduating class is staying in Hawaii for residency training — a…