Andrew Gomes

A nonprofit organic farm in Waianae that provides job and higher-education opportunities for West Oahu residents intends to make affordable housing part of its operation.

Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth appears to have fallen short in a bid for a second term, based on early voting results that show challenger Kimo Alameda with a major lead in what was forecast to be a close race.

A state lawmaker from Kauai has become the new speaker of the state House of Representatives and the first woman to hold the position.

Territorial Bancorp Inc. shareholders have approved a management- recommended takeover by a California bank over a rival bid by investors who lobbied heavily for a self- described better deal.

Hawaii’s largest electrical utility plans to spend $300 million over the next three years on top of $120 million this year to reduce wildfire risk.

An almost decade-old effort to make the selection process for Kamehameha Schools trustees more self-governing appears to have come up short in state court.

A more than century-old building in Chinatown that used to be a bank after it was a boardinghouse, and might have ghosts in the basement, is about to become an addition to Honolulu’s affordable-housing inventory.

The Kahala Nui retirement community is described as a place where residents and staff live and work as one ohana, but a deep-seated rift exists in the family dynamic.

A long-undeveloped second phase of Oahu’s Royal Kunia subdivision could become Hawaiian homesteads under a plan that also includes possibly converting adjacent farmland for the same use.

It could take two to four years for an agency running the state’s foster care system to fully address shortcomings found in an April audit that elevated concerns about the safety of children in foster homes.