Stewart Yerton

The state's consumer advocate wants the utility to provide more information about storm outages. Residents say they also deserve clearer answers about frequent outages that don't seem tied to weather.

The ballot measure to approve a type of bond financing used in 48 other states comes amid a concerted push by city and state officials to develop housing around Honolulu’s Skyline.

There will be a trip to study transit-oriented development, but no one can say exactly who's going, where or when.

The Commerce Department has brought on additional staff and is working to find and fix bugs in the system.

High gas prices created a recent windfall for the state's only oil refiner.

HECO has spent millions of dollars to strengthen its electric grid in recent years. Lala still wiped out power for most of the state.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health has snuffed out sales of mood-altering smokes and gummies derived from hemp.

A complicated formula results in a price-setting benchmark that's higher than if it measured only income. The result: More people qualify, but rents are out of reach for many.

A Japanese rival wants build a new liquefied natural gas power plant and start a new regulated utility for Oʻahu, ending HECO's 135-year monopoly.

The public comment period is the first step in the pre-review of JERA Co.'s proposal, pitched as a fossil-fuel bridge to a future of all-renewable resources.