The investment mirrors a countrywide trend toward downtown revitalization efforts.

Food, education, housing and health care should take priority over projects that are eye-catching but unnecessary.

A lawsuit filed by Hoopili residents says power lines that were supposed to be buried are now towering above the subdivision.

Plagued by poverty, poor infrastructure, volcanic eruptions and crime, the windward region still attracts a broad spectrum of people looking for their own slice of paradise.

Here’s how $50 million got into the new state budget for a facility that had been rejected earlier in the session.

State officials said the new stadium is expected to be open in time for the University of Hawaii’s 2028 football season.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were dumped on the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, which now has one year to spend most of it.

The bill was substantially altered during conference committee drawing scrutiny.

Updated: The bill was recommitted to conference committee Thursday, effectively killing it.

The bill was proposed to deal with a rare scenario where a developer kept control of a condo board for more than a decade.