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Two affordable housing projects proposed by Maui County and Pulama Lanai could boost the island’s low-income housing stock for the first time in nearly three decades.

Despite virtually no acting experience, the island’s movie chief has been hired to play a substantial role in a Hallmark shark movie.

As the Hawaii Tourism Authority shifts from marketing to tourism management, the counties are taking matters into their own hands with new hotel bans and airport shuttle systems.

Artificial light disorients seabirds that navigate by moonlight, sometimes causing the birds to fall from the sky where hungry predators wait.

The Maui Charter Commission and the Maui Police Commission are both looking at ways to provide better accountability for police on the island.

The ruling could have statewide implications, as it narrows the limits of what planning and zoning exemptions are permissible for a fast-track affordable housing development.

The sale of Lanai Today to billionaire Larry Ellison is raising concerns about journalistic integrity. But it may have saved Lanai from becoming a news desert.

The search comes as Honolulu’s police commission also is recruiting a new police chief. But the selection processes are playing out much differently.

It would be a simple solution to help reduce neighbor-island traffic — and make life better for the locals there, a UH economist says.

DeCoite will serve out the rest of former Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English’s term.