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People chosen randomly are being asked about their diets and where they purchase or grow their food.

UPDATED: Hawaii’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will offer more local produce for half the price to low-income families, starting in January. 

Confidential questionnaires will be conducted at random across Kauai to assess how ready residents are for an emergency.

Updated: Kaiser recently filed a federal lawsuit against Queen’s after the two sides failed to negotiate a payment rate for emergency services. 

Steve Johnson was the second person to die under the state’s new assisted suicide law. The state reports eight patients so far have received prescriptions for lethal drugs.

The state law requiring regular hearing and vision screening has been ignored for nearly 25 years, leaving nonprofits to cover at least part of the gap. 

The director of Sand Island Treatment Center reportedly did not pay back part of his excessive salary for two years because he was “distracted.”

Costs of employee contributions to health plans are among the nation’s lowest, according to a new report.

The National Cancer Institute raised its funding support of the UH Cancer Center.

Brand-name pharmaceutical companies are convincing consumers to keep using products that cost insurance companies far more than generic equivalents.