A look at the policy decisions, external crises and social changes that gave Hawai‘i the most expensive housing in the nation ...

In 1970, the price of paradise was already too high. As reported in the February issue of Hawaii Business Magazine that year, the U.S. Labor Department said a family of four in Honolulu needed to earn ...

The Admission Act – signed into law on March 18, 1959, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower – dissolved the Territory of Hawai‘i and established America’s 50th state. Statehood took effect on Aug. 21, ...