The oldest continuously operated ranches, churches, schools and other institutions include many familiar names.

Today, they are mostly gone. But from the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 to the 1950s, Hawai‘i’s economy, society and government were dominated by an oligarchy of companies known as the ...

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

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, ...

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 ...