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Located near Fort Weaver Road, the rental project will feature 119 units meant for eligible tenants who earn 60% or less of the area median income, or $83,550 a year for a four-person family, project plans indicate. Read more
The Hawai‘i Lodging & Tourism Association recently recognized the best of the state’s hospitality workforce at the 32nd annual Na Po‘e Pa‘ahana Awards, which drew 270 employee nominations from 80 properties across the state. Read more
The companies settled privately last year, but the amount was disclosed in a Newsmax investor document dated March 7. Read more
Stocks fell on the news, as investors worried that Trump would enact stiffer trade barriers around the world’s largest consumer market. Read more
A broad selloff sent all three major U.S. stock indexes tumbling, with losses in tech and tech-related megacap shares dragging the Nasdaq nearly 2%. Read more
The Tesla comments reflect those of many U.S. businesses concerned by Trump’s tariffs, but is notable because it is from Tesla. Read more
The USDA has frozen a broad swath of grants as it conducts an agency-wide spending review, including money for conservation and other farm programs funded by the IRA. Read more
Donatella, who was the chief creative officer at Versace, has been its driving force since her brother Gianni, the company founder, was gunned down in Miami in 1997. Read more
The cuts since mid-February have hit employees at agencies that play a crucial role in the process needed to issue permits for new federal and tribal energy production, including the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Read more
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NASA had been set to launch a SpaceX rocket from Florida carrying a replacement crew for the International Space Station in a mission that would set up the return to Earth of Wilmore and Williams — stuck in space for nine months after a trip on Boeing’s faulty Starliner. Read more
Companies have roasting, packaging and trading bases in both the United States and Canada in order to better supply clients. Read more
Canadians have been stung by Trump’s actions and words since he returned to the White House, both around tariffs and suggestions that Canada should be annexed by the United States. Read more
Egg prices rose another 10.4% in February, as an outbreak of bird flu continued to exacerbate a nationwide egg shortage. Read more
Activists have lately staged so-called Tesla Takedown protests to voice displeasure over Musk’s role in sweeping cuts to the federal workforce at the behest of Trump and cancellation of contracts that fund humanitarian programs around the world. Read more
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., asked a U.S. judge to declare Trump’s March 6 executive order unlawful and to bar its enforcement. Read more
The 2018 pay package resulted in spectacular growth for the electric vehicle maker and yet it was determined by the lower Court of Chancery to be unfair to shareholders, who voted twice to approve the plan, Musk argued. Read more
Airline stocks also wobbled today after Delta Air Lines and American Airlines issued warnings about a worsening economy. Read more
The new rule rescinds an authority that was first delegated to the head of enforcement in 2009 to issue formal orders, such as a subpoena. The move will “more closely align the Commission’s use of its investigation resources with Commission priorities,” it said in a notice published on the SEC’s website on Monday. Read more
Trump’s latest salvo was in response to the premier of Ontario’s threat that he would place a 25% surcharge on the electricity Canada’s most populous province supplies to 1.5 million U.S. homes. Read more
The Honolulu City Council’s budget hearings began Monday with an administrative overview of Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s proposed $5.14 billion budget package for fiscal year 2026. Read more
SSFM International has hired Morris M. Atta as a senior project manager effective in February. Read more
