Honolulu’s new electric buses still wear their iconic yellow and orange on the outside, but inside they have quieter engines and smoother rides. “The operators love them because they’re really ...

Mathieu Williams started at Kealakehe Intermediate School 11 years ago as a recent college graduate from Washington state and a Teach For America special education teacher. He moved into the role of ...

Small companies in Hawai‘i face lots of challenges, many related to staffing. They have to compete to land great employees, fend off companies trying to poach them away and navigate an ecosystem where ...

Beginnings: Airleen Lucero has been active in public service for decades, including as a community outreach worker, in peace education programs for Wai‘anae Coast schools and on the boards of ...

Prices of condos in North Kona and South Kohala moved in opposite directions last month: the former up and latter down. | Photo: courtesy of Lance Owens Lance Owens remembers a time when people would ...

Homebuyers may be facing higher mortgage rates than a year ago, but because homes for sale on O‘ahu are staying on the market much longer, there is more time to consider options and bargain. | Photo: ...

Great companies are filled with motivated employees who like what they’re doing and are rewarded for their efforts. They’re the kind of workplaces that many companies strive for but few achieve. In ...

Known for her love of challenges and the community, Emily Reber Porter says she applies the phrase “kuleana awakens mana” to everything she does. She first heard the phrase when she visited the ...

I attended a gathering over Presidents Day weekend to learn about legislative proposals seeking to increase the state’s conveyance tax to significantly boost funding for land conservation, rental ...

Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi received a $20 million award in the fall from the Kellogg Foundation to advance its goal of replacing youth incarceration with a restorative system grounded in Native ...

Even as a boy, Quinn Vittum saw that the construction industry had a problem: There was no system to recover and redistribute the waste it produced. He recalls his father, who owned a construction ...

A typical day for Quinn Vittum, executive director of Re-use Hawai‘i, begins at the nonprofit’s 18,000-square-foot Kaka‘ako redistribution center. The organization recovers and redistributes waste ...