Richard Borreca

Mist shrouds the heights of Kauai's Kokee State Park, home to Pakele, a small, dark gray bird named by state biologists. The bird is an ‘akikiki, famous not for its wingspan, song nor characteristics, but because when Pakele goes, that is pretty much the end of the line for this species of little Hawaiian honeycreeper. They face extinction.

Hawaii, birthplace of a magnetic, two-term Democratic president, is usually thumb's up if the person leading the nation is a Democrat.

As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump moves forward with his campaign, the political polls show he looks strong. But Trump is still adding a new aspect.

As the youngest state among the 50, Hawaii doesn't have much history in the business of presidential politics. And what little is there is out of the Democratic playbook.

If it is the Hawaii government, especially its bureaucracy you are waiting on, then Hawaii really knows how to keep it slow.

As officials go over the returns from this week's state primary election, it is a good time to check back when Hawaii as a state first voted for U.S. president.

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.