Kevin Auger became the Honolulu Office of Housing’s executive director this week, stepping up from his prior role as deputy ...

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 ...

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

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

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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Kauai Police Chief Todd Raybuck’s retirement next year comes as he faces potential disciplinary action for leaving his gun in ...

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 ...