Utility regulators have given Hawaiian Electric Co. the green light to pursue its first major rate increase in more than five ...

While Hawaiʻi ‘s voters still overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidates last November, they sent more Republicans to the ...

Legislators passed a historic new green fee. They also kicked some of Hawaiʻi's most daunting environmental challenges down ...

Bike stunts are good fun for some, but the number of e-bike accidents that EMS responded to on Oʻahu nearly tripled from 2022 ...

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If you have not traveled on Hawaiian Airlines to the Los Angeles International Airport, LAX, in the last three years, you ...

Critics who claim that Senate Bill 897 falls short of holding utilities accountable don’t understand the rapidly evolving ...

President Trump has said he wants to deport hardened criminals. But on Hawaiʻi, agents are snaring undocumented children and ...

Lawmakers are taking steps to address a severe shortage of court-appointed attorneys across the state, but lawyers and judges ...

The state watchdog could get behind a more modest increase if public utility regulators investigate the interisland shipper's ...