HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i Convention Center achieved its best revenue performance since the center’s opening in 1998, which along with strong net income saved $8.9 million in state subsidy this fiscal year.

HONOLULU — Downtown Honolulu is being readied for an economic revival.

HONOLULU — Two years into a three-year plan for the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to use $600 million primarily for developing homestead lots for beneficiaries, the agency’s plan is still very much in flux.

HONOLULU — O‘ahu’s sluggish real estate market is finally starting to pick up steam.

HANALEI —The Hokule‘a arrived in the North Shore of Kaua‘i on Saturday with the community proudly welcoming and draping the crew with leis.

Attorneys for more than 160 insurance companies claim that a Maui judge’s decision barring them from suing any party thought to be responsible for last year’s Maui wildfires has no precedent around the country.

WAINAE, Hawai‘i — Leihoku Elementary School in West Oahu now has a firebreak — a 1,000-foot strip of cleared land — along the school’s fence line to help protect against wildfires.

HONOLULU — Japan returned more than a year ago to its position as Hawai‘i’s top source of international tourists, but the market isn’t expected to attain its pre-COVID-19 level of more than 1.5 million visitor arrivals until 2026 or 2027.

HONOLULU — Come September, all three of Hawai‘i’s top state-funded tourism management and destination branding organizations, which together control more than $128 million in state funds, will have a Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander at the helm.