Unemployment is very low but that hasn’t worked out to more money in workers’ pockets.

The savvy little food chain may no longer be the most popular market on the mainland, but it could be in the islands.

Hawaii is in the top third nationally in financial savvy, but we lead the nation in the percentage of people who overspend.

Residents’ paychecks may imply they’re middle class, but many endure cost-of-living pressures commonly associated with poverty.

It may seem counterintuitive, but our low property tax rates in the islands add to our high cost of living.

The cost of living weighs so heavily on schoolteachers that many fear they will never get ahead if they stay here.

The newspaper looked at homes for under $1 million in three real estate markets. In Honolulu, buyers pay more and get less, but benefit from really low property tax rates.

Even with low oil prices, the deck is stacked against farmers like Richard Ha on the Big Island. But some argue new strategies can turn things around.

When it comes to buying power and the rising cost of living, we still haven’t fully recovered from the Great Recession.

We check back in with a Honolulu family who moved to Texas in 2014 to escape Oahu’s high cost of living and dismal buying power. Here’s how that turned out.