Visits to Maui County were down by 20.5 percent to only 159,053 in October, according to the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism.

WAILUKU>> A Lahaina man died Sunday after losing control of his motorcycle and falling on Puakea Road on Maui.

Hawaii’s unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.5 percent in October, unchanged from September.

Mayor Harry Kim’s veto of bill to ban the genetic modification of taro and coffee on the Big Island was overridden Thursday by a resounding 7-0 Hawaii County Council vote.

A 2007 state law requiring limits on businesses, systems and devices that produce greenhouse gases may have its heaviest impact on the Maui, which is estimated to have the largest increase in production of …

Cheyenne Kaluahine and Sheldon Salmo have yet to hold their 3-week-old twin boys, who are recovering at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children after being successfully delivered three months early.

Although Big Island voters approved an initiative this week that makes marijuana enforcement a low police priority, Hawaii County officials still expect to receive federal grant dollars that will be used toward …

Billy Kenoi’s “together we can, together we will” campaign slogan came true Tuesday night as Big Island voters made the charismatic candidate their next Hawaii County mayor.

More than 1,400 voters surged to the polls Saturday, the last day for absentee walk-in voting, with excitement in the presidential and mayoral races at its highest level in years.

A Hawaii County fire inspector has been cleared of alleged mistreatment, including extortion, of a former Hilo nightclub manager.