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A recent analysis of judiciary data by the Hawai‘i Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice found that from 2018 to 2023 ...

But they are declining to advance provisions that would have defunded the stadium and given the money to the University of ...

Economists struggle to predict the fallout, while tourism, construction and retail businesses seek their own paths through ...

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The salary increases were recommended by a commission filled with former -- and current -- government officials.

Then-Gov. David Ige, right, and his attorney general, Doug Chin, filed a major lawsuit against the first Trump administration ...

It’s a little after 8 a.m. and Hawaiʻi schools superintendent Keith Hayashi is walking around a ballroom at the Ala Moana ...

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But the VA system is under threat. The Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate 80,000 VA jobs represents the largest workforce reduction in the department’s history. These cuts will hit Hawai‘i ...

The NOAA office in Hilo that supports that carbon dioxide sampling has been flagged for a possible lease cancellation.

The military removes a web page honoring the Hawaiʻi unit's World War II exploits and its thousands of Japanese-American ...