Leasehold Properties: A Deal or a Drain?
While most of the state’s leasehold single-family properties have converted to fee simple ownership over the past few decades, the leasehold option remains alive in the condo market.
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Navigating Hawai‘i’s Family-Leave Maze
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?
Nonprofit Leader of the Year 2024: John Leong, CEO of Kupu
His extensive leadership experience and unwavering vision has built Kupu into a powerhouse environmental nonprofit.
Private Equity Owns a Big Chunk of Hawai‘i’s Hotels. Here’s Why That Matters.
Private equity companies own almost 30% of Hawai‘i’s hotel rooms, a huge increase in the past two decades. We investigate the pros and cons.
A Honolulu Neurologist and Architect Are Tackling Brain Health
An eclectic group of local leaders has founded the Brain Health Applied Research Institute, aiming to draw from many disciplines and traditions to improve people’s cognitive well-being
Cesspools Are Killing Hawai‘i’s Coral – But It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way
An expert explains how to reverse the damage from the state’s 83,000 cesspools, including using treated wastewater for irrigation and landscaping.
Emerging Legal Stars 2026
Meet sixteen attorneys who are redefining excellence early in their careers.
Fixing Hawai‘i’s Deadly Roads
Speeding, drunk driving and other causes kill about a hundred people a year. Here is what’s being done to keep Hawai‘i’s drivers, pedestrians and bikers safer.
O‘ahu is in a Geological Sweet Spot for Fresh Water. Here’s Why
We looked into the story of the island’s freshwater, including where it comes from, how good it is and whether we’re taking care of it.
Should Hawaiʻi Have a Constitutional Convention in 2030?
People are divided: Some say the state’s political status quo needs an overhaul that only a Constitutional Convention can provide. Others fear a new ConCon could be hijacked by outside interests and valuable rights and institutions damaged.
High-Powered Steakhouse Chat with State's Biggest Merger on the Menu
People say Honolulu is just a big, small town. Not much goes unnoticed. Especially when the state's most powerful politician meets privately with the leaders of the state's largest commercial enterprise, HMSA, and the second-largest healthcare provider, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health,…
2018 Black Book: 364 Executives to Know
Welcome to the 21st annual Black Book from Hawaii Business Magazine – a valuable insight into who are the decision makers, movers and shakers of the state's business world.