The state Department of Agriculture is being grilled by lawmakers for its lack of action on “bad actor” nurseries and ...

With the landmark passage of a state law addressing short-term rentals, Maui County has already announced legislation to ...

Gov. Josh Green has put together a Hawaiʻi Climate Advisory Team to study policies for disaster prevention. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on what that means for the state.

Senate Bill 3202 would allow two accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, to be built on residential properties. Most of the ...

A new research project is uncovering the history of reformatories or industrial schools in Hawaiʻi during the territorial period. Remnants of Hawaiʻi's first reformatory, the Waialeʻe Industrial ...

Gov. Josh Green has approved $385 million in emergency appropriations for Maui recovery. From that amount, $292 million will go to support families who are ineligible for reimbursement from the ...

When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will still be some roadblocks for science.

This is National Small Business Week. Pacific Business News editor-in-chief A. Kam Napier has more on the state of small businesses across the Hawaiian Islands.

Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement.

The bill which was previously passed in the House in 2019 and 2022 but blocked in the Senate, aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces.

The 10% drop in year-over-year iPhone sales for the January-March period is latest sign of weakness in a product that generates most of Apple's revenue.

Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands this week elected a former foreign minister to become prime minister. It’s a development that suggests the South Pacific nation will keep its close ties with China.