The administration’s move comes as Hawaii contends with both the ever-present risk of devastating natural disasters, which ...

Another change threatened to remove the requirement that homes be a principal residence to qualify as “occupied.” This ...

Maui County has agreed to pay $4 million for roughly 79 acres in central Maui to be used as a permanent disposal site for the ...

There are proven ways to strengthen homes that pay off in the long run, such as installing hurricane straps to tie down roofs ...

The chief operating officer for Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, which manages the project, expressed confidence ...

Hawaii has more than 80,000 cesspools, the most per capita of any state. The majority – some 50,000 of them – are located on ...

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Today, hundreds of Honolulu’s old residential high-rises still aren’t mandated to be retrofitted with fire sprinklers. And ...

The nomination of former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence adds another layer ...

The public wasn’t notified about a 911 outage until about three hours after problems began because the Honolulu Police ...

The Campaign Spending Commission is also making a bigger financial request from the governor this year: $2 million for a new ...

Tamara McKay, state chair of the Hawaii Republican Party, is now wondering whether state Sen. Mike Gabbard might do as his ...