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The University of Hawaii Manoa’s pilot effort is a smart use of data-driven technology to help students graduate sooner.

As Hawaii creates a new medical industry, lawmakers should consider modifying the law in ways that would benefit patients statewide.

Sen. Will Espero and colleagues will push for a long list of bills to improve law enforcement in Hawaii; these four represent the best starting point.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association has offered an ambitious proposal to tackle shortfalls in public schools. Its timely draft bill launches an important conversation.

Resolutions of the Nai Aupuni elections and Thirty Meter Telescope cases are far from over, but key Native Hawaiian concerns seem unlikely to prevail in either matter.

Legal pressure has forced Honolulu to treat homeless people with more dignity; but the state Department of Budget and Finance’s meager draft budget skirts homelessness’s root causes.

The justices refuse to hear a Hawaii appeal that had the potential to do on a local level what Citizens United has done to federal elections.

Documents in a class-action suit against Haseko should provoke an ethics investigation and change how city planners work with developers.

Why won’t Congress act to keep those on the FBI terrorist watch list from buying guns? More than 2,000 people with terrorist ties already are armed.

On a week when tradition reminds us to count our blessings, we’re reminded that there are plenty to count in an island paradise we’re fortunate to call home.