Hawai’i's attempt to create a high-tech industry using generous and opaque tax credits cost an estimated $747 million through 2007, according to a new study by the state.

Barack Obama may be the first U.S. president who can successfully pull off the shaka, a Hawaiian greeting Hawaiians say has various meanings, from ‘hang loose’ and ‘cool’ to ‘thanks.’ The hand gesture, also a …

Barack Obama may be the first U.S. president who can successfully pull off the shaka, a Hawaiian greeting Hawaiians say has various meanings, from ‘hang loose’ and ‘cool’ to ‘thanks.’ The hand gesture, also a …

What might have been simply a local news story and a faint blip on the national radar became a major news event outside of Hawaii because of the presence of President-elect Barack Obama.

By Philip Rucker HONOLULU — A thunderstorm knocked out power across Oahu island Friday night, crippling the island of 900,000 people and interrupting the vacations of thousands of tourists, including …

Engineers were working to restore power to some 800,000 residents and thousands of tourists on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Engineers are working to restore power to some 800,000 residents and thousands of tourists on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

FROM ABC NEWS’ SUNLEN MILLER IN HAWAII: President-elect Obama stopped by the Marine Corps base in Hawaii Kaneche Bay where servicemen and -women were eating Christmas dinner in Kailua Thursday evening.

Mele Kalikimaka: Merry Christmas! Thanks to Bing Crosby, people whose Hawaiian vocabulary is otherwise composed only of “aloha” can greet each other today and sound a little bit hip and a little bit flip .

Even at the end of his long journey to win the White House, one question about Barack Obama came up again and again: How did he appear to stay even-tempered and levelheaded while traveling such a grueling road? …