Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz is using state agencies to buy and develop land. Call it PLDC 2.0.

City officials did not include money in the budget to pay for the 64% salary increases for council members. But they'll now look for "cost savings."

There's a lot riding on the official launch of Skyline, including the reelection chances of the mayor of Honolulu.

More and more Native Hawaiians are leaving the islands in favor of Sin City, even though it's in the middle of the desert.

The latest federal indictment of Donald Trump appears not to have hurt his polling numbers while helping him raise millions of dollars in his campaign to return to the White House. These charges relate to his refusal to return classified and top secret documents that he was keeping at his Florida estate.

As the rail project finally nears its tentative launch, Honolulu's daily newspaper has become an uncritical promoter of the long-troubled train.

City officials, including Honolulu City Council members, are in line for big raises come July 1. Council Chair Tommy Waters wants council positions to be full time and has introduced a measure to do that. But the 64% pay raises may take effect before members move to full time — if they ever do.

Longtime East Honolulu lawmaker Sam Slom died last week. For many years he was the only Republican in the state Senate where he served from 1996 to 2016. He was 81.

The Hawaii Legislature granted the governor unilateral authority to restore funding to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, even though lawmakers almost killed the controversial agency.

A recent ABC News / Washington Post poll shows the president's approval rating at 36%, the lowest of any first-term president a year and a half away from the next election.