Being a blue state in a GOP-dominated national power structure makes this the perfect time to become more autonomous.

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Let’s support swimming, sailing, surfing, volleyball and paddling. We live in an ocean, after all.

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Body camera footage captures the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Macayla Deponte, less than seven minutes after Maui police officers arrived at a Pukalani residence.

The first sentence of a bill before the Legislature says it all: bedbugs are bloodsucking insects that typically hide in bedrooms and come out to feed at night. Anyone with a nightmare hotel ...

Leong and Sword agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of conspiring to deprive the residents of Honolulu of their ...

AARP Hawaiʻi, which is lobbying hard for the legislation — there are several paid family leave bills pending — reports that ...

After years of futility, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has new support for its plans to build affordable housing and a hotel ...

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Honolulu police officers were disciplined for a range of issues in 2024, including failing to activate their body cameras, ...