Richard Borreca

The National Union of Healthcare Workers was one of many political groups noting that history was made in Hawaii even before last week's state primary election.

Dubbed by ABC News in 2015 as a “political rising star,” Tulsi Gabbard was making news as a Hawaii Democrat unafraid of criticizing President Barack Obama.

Hawaii's voters will soon be shuffling off to the November election with just a few new defining races and little to enliven the fall competition.

If Donald Trump comes to Hawaii in this presidential campaign year, we can offer him sun and surf, but our famed Hawaiian hospitality is not likely to extend to political success.

The more you watch local politics, the more things don't seem the same. Take the current Hawaii governor and Honolulu mayor.

Hawaii may be light-years away from those labor-union- organizing, plantation-era days from which Japanese, Chinese and Filipino laborers struggled to survive, but labor unions are still an important part of the island structure.

A life lost or a living community destroyed is beyond calculation, and Hawaii continues to mull over the tragedy of the Lahaina-destroying fire of August 2023.

Quick question: Among all the large airports in the country, which one always rates as “second worst” among large airports?

With just a little more than two weeks between today and the General Election, there is little more candidates can do to change their personal description from “candidate” to “winner.”

Until Kamala Harris became vice president in 2021, Hawaii's U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye was the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in U.S. history.