The island’s largest private landowner is exploring how to turn the old Olokele sugar mill into the rural Westside’s first industrial park.

The County Council plans to take up a separate measure Friday that could effectively exempt more than half of the affected properties.

The increase is expected to generate an extra $26 million in revenue, which the interisland barge service says will still leave it operating at a loss next year.

It took years for the city to set up a program helping businesses that were negatively impacted by rail construction. Now, that program is underutilized and insufficient, business owners say.

The controversy over the downtown Honolulu building pits one of Hawaiʻi’s oldest real estate services companies against an aliʻi trust established by Queen Emma to benefit her hospital.

Local retailers are bracing for the e-commerce giant’s arrival as its Hawaiʻi footprint expands.

The year-and-a-half old product-development center in Central Oʻahu helps grow Jina Wye’s limu cracker company.

The money will be in addition to $30 million given to nonprofits and social service agencies last spring.

A weak national economic outlook is driving down post-Maui wildfire recovery gains in Hawaiʻi’s economy. A lone bright spot is the construction industry.

The caller claimed to work for HECO, and what he said left a Kailua woman frazzled and uncertain.