Our newsletters bring you timely summaries of key local stories, delivered twice daily to your inbox, along with a dedicated Personal Finance Newsletter every Tuesday. Hawaii Business Magazine strives ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hawai‘i Business Magazine is proud to present Emerging Legal Stars 2025, recognizing the next generation of attorneys making an impact in Hawai‘i’s legal community. This special feature, publishing in ...

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

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

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