Robbie Dingeman

As chief happiness officer at Happiness U, Alice Inoue encourages people to be their best selves.

Pulling together.

You don’t have to book a flight to explore international flavors. We tracked down 53 of the tastiest dishes in Hawai‘i that hail from cuisines all over the globe.

As the state attorney general, Doug Chin was thrust onto the national stage when he sued to block President Trump’s proposed travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations.

Finding the right mix.

As a millennial Republican woman representing Mililani and Mililani Mauka since 2012, Rep. Beth Fukumoto, 34, made headlines. But the youngest person to serve as Hawai‘i’s House Minority Leader felt increasingly isolated from her colleagues, alienated by the remarks of President Donald Trump and in March announced she was leaving the state GOP.

What projects can we really do?

Truancy Court pilot program at Wai‘anae Intermediate goes from one with the most chronically absent students statewide to one with a 78-percent success rate.

He says “I wasn't diminishing the judge on the island of Hawai‘i, that beautiful place.”

After Attorney General Jeff Sessions commented about Hawai‘i Federal Judge Derrick Watson’s travel-ban block, Twitter users from Congress to Kaka‘ako react with #islandinthepacific.

From world-circling voyagers, a disease-hunting doctor and more, these seven shaped Hawai‘i in 2016.

World-circling navigators.