Once a destination for the rich and adventurous, the advent of commercial jets in the 1950s made the Islands affordable to ...
From Chinn Ho to David Murdock, here are the men and occasional women selected as the year’s most influential leaders.
World-renowned appraiser Gerald Kwock transforms a lifetime of collecting into unending opportunities for local students.
Ethel and Joe Murphy came to Hawai‘i in 1952 so Joe could sell vacuum cleaners. By 1955, they founded the first and oldest regional business magazine in the country.
That’s when the state was mired in a decadelong recession triggered by Japan’s economic bubble crash (1991), a U.S. war (Desert Storm, also 1991), and Hurricane Iniki (1992). By the mid-1990s, “there ...
Established in 2009, Ulupono Initiative champions local food, renewable energy, clean transportation, and freshwater ...
News reports of gun violence and crimes tend to lead to increased gun sales, says gun shop owner Mia Mijuskovic. “When there are high-profile incidents, many people feel a heightened sense of ...
In 1969, Bill Guss opened Labor Services Inc. to provide a flexible, on-demand workforce to O‘ahu warehouses, trucking companies, contractors, and naval shipyards. From his office across the street ...