From Chinn Ho to David Murdock, here are the men and occasional women selected as the year’s most influential leaders.

Ethel and Joe Murphy came to Hawai‘i in 1952 so Joe could sell vacuum cleaners. By 1955, they founded the first and oldest ...

Once a destination for the rich and adventurous, the advent of commercial jets in the 1950s made the Islands affordable to ...

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The issues faced in 1982 sound familiar, more than four decades later: a blowback against tourism, high interest rates that stifle expansion and development, weak housing sales, a shortage of capital, ...

A look at the policy decisions, external crises and social changes that gave Hawai‘i the most expensive housing in the nation ...

World-renowned appraiser Gerald Kwock transforms a lifetime of collecting into unending opportunities for local students.

In 1970, the price of paradise was already too high. As reported in the February issue of Hawaii Business Magazine that year, the U.S. Labor Department said a family of four in Honolulu needed to earn ...

The Admission Act – signed into law on March 18, 1959, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower – dissolved the Territory of Hawai‘i and established America’s 50th state. Statehood took effect on Aug. 21, ...

Rules and policies can leave parents broke and jobless, or push them back to work long before they or their infants are ready. Can the system be fixed?