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Gov. Linda Lingle is promoting Hawaii as a tourism destination during her two-week trip to China, but a Democratic leader said she should have stayed home.

With so much to see and do, Las Vegas will always be a great place to visit. After all, Hawaii residents still fondly call it the ninth island.

BONNIE LANGAN LOFSTEDT left for Hawaii after taking her last final at UC Berkeley.

Gov. Linda Lingle will leave tomorrow for a two-week excursion to China, where she intends to sell Hawaii as a tourism destination and to bolster opportunities for the state's products to be sold there.

With public anger rising over teacher furloughs in Hawaii, two of the four expected candidates for governor next year offered ways on Tuesday that the controversial moneysaving program could be halted or reduced.

The Medical Cannabis Working Group is composed of organizations, medical professionals, patients and caregivers.

Guam will receive more than $16 million in Compact Impact funding, according to a release from the Department of the Interior.

KOHALA COAST, HI, October 26, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- For the fourth year in a row, the Moku O Keawe International Festival presents an exciting and immersive celebration of hula and related arts, November 5-8 at the Waikoloa Beach Resort.

Six of seven Hawaii Government Employees Association units ratified a contract that includes 42 furloughs days over two years, union officials said on Monday night.

Navy Facilities Engineering Command Pacific selected the Architects Hawaii-led AHL Setiadi Gushiken Joint Venture, LLC as the most highly qualified team for infrastructure development projects on Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands .

From October 23rd through Halloween, all five Hawaii Self Storage locations will be offering free plastic pumpkins filled with treats per family for a grocery bag of food while supplies last.

Two groups of parents angered by the prospect that Hawaii children will be in school nearly three dozen fewer days over the next 20 months have filed lawsuits seeking to halt teacher furloughs set to begin Friday.

Lawyers representing public school students, in both regular and special education, have filed two separate lawsuits in U.S. District Court seeking to block "furlough Fridays." A class-action suit filed this afternoon by attorney Eric Seitz and others contends that furlough Fridays present a breach of contract, have a discriminatory impact on ...

MapSpace! 10/21/2009 11:58 AM Image credit: Naval Research Lab Monterey The central Pacific Ocean now has a strong and growing hurricane, Hurricane Neki.

Six of seven units of Hawaii's largest state employee union on Monday ratified a new two-year contract that calls for 42 furlough days through June 2011.

At a time when President Barack Obama is pushing for more time in the classroom, his home state has created the nation's shortest school year under a new union contract that closes schools on most Fridays for the remainder of the academic calendar.

In what may be a sign of things to come for Hawaii's economy, the state Energy Planning and Policy Branch is adding workers while most of state government is shrinking.

ROME>> Pope Benedict XVI said St. Damien "teaches us to choose the good fight - not those that lead to division, but those that gather us together in unity." The pope's remarks at the canonization Mass yesterday were spoken in Dutch and Spanish, recognizing the large numbers of people from Father Damien De Veuster's home country of Belgium and his ...

Imee Gallardo, 24, has been scooping ice cream at a Haagen-Dazs shop at Waikiki Beach for five years, and during that time the shop has done something its counterparts on the mainland rarely do: it has paid for her health care.

The U.S. Green Building Council has another enthusiastic member to add to its ranks.

A few months ago they closed up shop, but not really, it's more like they drove away.

A spokeswoman for the Hawai'i Government Employees Association said an agreement with Gov.

The commission is responding to lawmaker criticism that Cronin has not provided information on the agency's budget woes, has made mistakes on elections equipment contracting and lacks leadership skills.

A historic moment for Hawaii gets international attention. Blessed Damien of Moloka'i, who helped those afflicted with leprosy in Kalaupapa in the 1800s, will be canonized Sunday morning in Rome, Italy, making him a saint.

Leper priest,four others canonized Reuters VATICAN CITY, OCT 11 Pope Benedict created five saints on Sunday including Belgian priest Damien who worked and died among Hawaiian lepers, earning the admiration of United States President Barack Obama who sent a message hailing Damien's canonization.

May 21, 1864 Ordained at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, assigned to the Big Island.

Hawaii was under a tsunami watch briefly yesterday after three powerful earthquakes rocked the South Pacific near the Vanuatu archipelago, about 3,501 miles southwest of Honolulu.

A remake of the fabled "Hawaii Five-0" series could be coming to the television screen.

Today, it is probably Mufi Hannemann who most closely resembles Hawaii's earlier generation of power brokers.

Starting this week dozens of Hawaii post offices will cut their hours, the U.S. Postal Service announced on Tuesday.

There's no question the state is facing a significant budget crunch. While the shortfalls affect every citizen of the state, the most immediate effect is on public workers, who are faced with the unhappy choice of accepting furloughs or layoffs to bring the budget in line.

Representative Gene Ward , the Kamilonui Farmers' Co-op, and other community organizations in Hawaii Kai are sponsoring a 'A Day on the Farm' open house in Kamilonui Valley to raise awareness about the plight of the farmers in the back Hawaii Kai.

The Pride of America will add two new cruises in Hawaii next spring. Norwegian Cruise Line announced Friday that two new seven-day interisland cruises have been added to the ship's itinerary.

The isle entrepreneur's Hawaii Underground Music Awards have outgrown their origins to become an actual awards program By John Berger POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 02, 2009 Hawaii's recording artists don't lack opportunities to win awards for their work -- in theory, anyway.

A bill prohibiting genetically modified taro in Maui County received final approval Friday by the Maui County Council.

Gov. Linda Lingle's administration and the state's largest public workers union resume binding arbitration Thursday to try to reach a contract settlement.

Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals Associate Judge Corinne Watanabe will step down at the end of the year, the latest in a spate of judicial early retirement announcements in the past 12 months.

Outgoing U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo Jr. is among six people nominated by a panel to fill a vacancy on the state First Circuit Court.