Health care insurance and coverage is at the heart of the current U.S. government shutdown, which has resulted in furloughs and more recently — lapses in food assistance benefits. Democrats want the ...

Medical experts are warning Hawaii patients to take a closer look at their medical bills.

Some major changes are potentially afoot for Hawaii's health care market in the face of labor demands and rising costs. The two confirmed they have been in talks about joining forces, with the goal of ...

Shelley Oates-Wilding poses at Ala Moana Regional Park on Thursday in Honolulu. Oats-Wilding is a former Olympian and owner of nonprofit Ikaika Hawaii Watermans Academy, and is among thousands of ...

A class of roughly 100,000 former public employees returned to court in a case that has outlasted careers, mayoral terms and a chief justice.

Many people in Hawaii already sense something is wrong with our health care system. It’s harder to get an appointment and ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Health insurance premiums are expected to skyrocket next year for thousands of Hawaii residents under the Affordable Care Act. The state insurance commissioner said this ...

For Shelley Oats-Wilding, a former Olympian who now runs a Honolulu-based nonprofit teaching ocean sports and safety to youth, health care in the U.S. is a complicated mess. Oats-Wilding, 60, runs the ...