Fund would use existing property tax revenues to support programs to help people who experience food insecurity access locally produced food products.

Local cattle are moving offshore despite state efforts to boost slaughterhouse capacity in the islands.

Members of the state Council on Revenues are surprised the state has not felt greater economic impacts from the war.

University of Hawaiʻi experts emphasized solving the state’s housing crisis requires building new housing because it frees up old housing as well.

Millions of pounds of Hawaiʻi-grown basil are exported to Canada and the U.S. mainland. The herb is now more profitable than some of the state’s most iconic crops.

Fed up with declining pay, drivers try and organize politically, seek lawmakers’ help.

A stack of bills under consideration by lawmakers would increase taxes or impose new levies on cars, liquor, real estate, capital gains and more.

The budget now passes to the Senate which will continue fine-tuning the state’s spending priorities for the coming fiscal year.

A recent UH report likens Hawaiʻi’s economy to that of West Virginia — another place being “left behind.”

Hawaiʻi is one of 22 states that have called the USDA’s demand for food stamp recipients’ information unprecedented and unlawful.