Economic prediction says stubborn recession won't go away quickly A new Hawaii economic forecast predicts Hawaii will make only lackluster gains next year ...
Hawaii leaders expect 2011 APEC summit in islands will bring tourists and prestige Hawaii intends to showcase its tourism opportunities and cultural diversity ...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Bringing APEC to Hawaii: summit of 'flowered shirts and grass skirts' He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo. That's one way to view President Barack Obama's announcement that the United States will host ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, which concluded on Sunday in ...
Obama steers 2011 Asia-Pacific summit meeting to his native Hawaii President Barack Obama is steering some tourism trade and international attention to his native Hawaii in a couple of years. The president said Sunday he will host the 2011 version of the ...
Jehovah's Witnesses convention expected to pump $100M into Hawaii's economy The Hawaii Tourism Authority calculates delegates to the Jehovah's Witnesses convention at the Hawaii Convention Center to spend about $100 million. HTA Vice President David Uchiyama says the projection is based, in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. law that awards thousands of federal employees higher pay than others because of where they live does not unconstitutionally limit the right of people to travel, a federal appeals court said. Thursday's ruling by the U.S. ...
Study: Hawaii foreclosure filings remain high A real estate research firm reports there were 925 foreclosure filings in Hawaii in October as distressed homeowners continued to deal with layoffs, furloughs and wage cuts. The October figure is short of the 969 filings ...
New York's state assembly on Tuesday put off a tentatively planned vote on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, but could revisit the controversial issue next week. "A vote did not take place. They are negotiating," a spokeswoman for the assembly's ...
New York's state assembly on Tuesday put off a tentatively planned vote on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, but could revisit the controversial issue next week. "A vote did not take place. They are negotiating," a spokeswoman for the assembly's ...
Hawaii Lt. Gov. Aiona asks parties to meet with him to devise settlement on teacher furloughs Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona is asking representatives of the parties involved in Hawaii's controversial teacher furlough program to meet with him immediately to work out ...
Federal judge refuses to halt Hawaii teacher furloughs, calls on both sides to settle dispute Though conceding it was a close call, a federal judge refused to halt Hawaii's teacher furloughs, and called on the state and lawyers for parents who filed ...
