The state must spend millions to see if more electricity can be produced using heat deep under the earth. And it will have to convince residents to support such an effort.

Magnetic detection can only go so far in an island chain made of volcanic rock. Experts say other methods could be a game-changer.

A dishonest public worker and his partners slurped up millions of dollars by illegally manipulating a complex system of affordable housing credits.

Federal cuts threaten vital assistance programs like SNAP. Yet our leaders won’t act.

Open daily with “Big Market” days on Wednesday and Saturday, the open-air market has attracted locals and visitors for the past 37 years to downtown Hilo. The market’s website says it started with Richard “Mike” Rankin and four farmers selling produce and goods out of their vehicles in 1988.

A developer has come up with enough money to satisfy a $3.4 million debt and resolve a mortgage default, surprising those who had other plans for the area.

Lineal descendants of Punaluʻu and conservationists devise plans to permanently protect the land on Hawaiʻi island and its unique cultural and ecological features.

Big Island groups worked with state agencies to open the cherished waters of Kealakekua Bay to spearfishing invasive fish.

The Legislature funded minor workforce development initiatives but did not invest much in diversifying the local economy.

The state watchdog could get behind a more modest increase if public utility regulators investigate the interisland shipper’s relationship with its parent company.