Hawaii has the highest cost of living in the U.S. , and it’s only getting worse. Billionaires are buying up land, groceries are double the national average, and local wages haven’t kept up. Once a ...

Vast data exists on conditions of Hawaii’s economy, but the state is about to lose a powerful human base of economic ...

The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...

He called it a practical, not-too-costly system of surface transportation that would spur the local economy and help integrate the state. He died in 2002, five years before the privately owned Hawaii ...

But Hawaii, the nation’s 50th state, remains reliably and historically Democratic, more so since its most famous resident and former President Barack Obama, became the party’s nominee in 2006.

Hawaii lawmakers passed on Friday first-of-its-kind legislation that will increase the state’s lodging tax to raise money for ...

Hawaii is a popular tourist destination, with increasing numbers of U.S. citizens visiting since 2014. Over 7 million went to ...

When complete, the achievement will make Hawaii the first state in the nation to be fully ... a statewide fiber network will become a reality and serve as the catalyst to transform communities ...

The traditional Lower 48 states would become the contiguous 50 as the Canadian territory between the U.S. mainland and Alaska disappears, leaving Hawaii as the only noncontinental state.