The average price of regular gasoline in the United States is up 9.58 cents over a two-week period to $2.73. That's according to the national Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday. Analyst Trilby Lundberg says the average price for a gallon ...

More than six million vacationers, most of them from the continental U.S. or Japan, spend close to 11 billion dollars a year in this tropical archipelago.

Defense, centered on U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor, is the second largest moneymaker.

Hawaii is the only state with no ethnic majority: Caucasians constitute 24 percent; Japanese, 18 percent; Filipino, 12 ...

The 16th annual Honolulu Festival is expected to provide a much-needed boost for Hawaii's visitor industry. Organizers say more than 4,700 people are coming, mostly from Japan, specifically to take part in the festival set for the weekend of March 13-14. They are forecast to ...

Although the tsunami that dealt a glancing blow to Hawaii on Saturday caused no physical damage or injuries, it did manage to hit Honolulu taxpayers' pocketbooks. But Mayor Mufi Hannemann says the $330,000 the city spent responding to the tsunami was well worth it. He ...