The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer ...

Periodically since the start of the new millennium a lawsuit challenging Kamehameha Schools’ admissions policy has landed in court. What plays out typically follows a pattern: a familiar line of ...

During the pandemic, the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaiʻi charged island taxpayers premium prices for Covid tests – up to $166 per test – as millions of public dollars flowed to the nonprofit’s ...

Seven years ago, civil attorney Kevin Sumida took to the witness stand during a high-profile criminal trial and was accused of lying to a federal prosecutor. Now, all this time later, he could face ...

There is evidence that viable geothermal resources exist across the state. University of Hawaiʻi’s Play Fairway Project confirmed that all the major Hawaiian Islands, including Oʻahu, may contain the ...

The Green administration drafted House Bill 2306 and Senate Bill 3125 to halt the scheduled tax cuts at the end of this year, ...

The Anthropic fight matters here because it reminds us what’s at stake and why Hawaiʻi needs to implement solid, ethical AI policy.

Hawaiʻi has been enduring a cost of living crisis for decades. We constantly hear news stories about it; friends, neighbors, ...

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Last year the Legislature passed a first of its kind resolution urging property insurers to take Big Oil to court to recover ...

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Hawaiʻi schools have faced multiple lawsuits in recent years involving decades-old incidents, after lawmakers temporarily ...