Hawaii is in the top third nationally in financial savvy, but we lead the nation in the percentage of people who overspend.

Residents’ paychecks may imply they’re middle class, but many endure cost-of-living pressures commonly associated with poverty.

It may seem counterintuitive, but our low property tax rates in the islands add to our high cost of living.

The cost of living weighs so heavily on schoolteachers that many fear they will never get ahead if they stay here.

The newspaper looked at homes for under $1 million in three real estate markets. In Honolulu, buyers pay more and get less, but benefit from really low property tax rates.

Even with low oil prices, the deck is stacked against farmers like Richard Ha on the Big Island. But some argue new strategies can turn things around.

When it comes to buying power and the rising cost of living, we still haven’t fully recovered from the Great Recession.

We check back in with a Honolulu family who moved to Texas in 2014 to escape Oahu’s high cost of living and dismal buying power. Here’s how that turned out.

The substantial drop in oil prices has complicated NextEra’s bid for Hawaiian Electric, and could make it harder for Hawaii to accept the company.

A time-of-use pilot project on Kauai is expected to bring down costs for people who sign up for it. But it could have future payoffs for all customers.