Instead of asking ratepayers to absorb the full 115% increase over 10 years, we’re proposing a more strategic and balanced ...

A trope is a figure of speech. The most common legislative figure of speech is “it needs more study” and its first cousin, ...

New bill establishes state insurance and loan programs after years of false starts, allowing the government to serve as the ...

After replacing Finance Committee chair Kyle Yamashita, Chris Todd promises to reform how the House handles money bills.

Advocates for working families are concerned that bad things are coming with federal cuts and hoped the Legislature would do ...

A new database will track Hawaiʻi lawsuits against executive orders and other actions taken by the second Trump ...

For years, law enforcement agencies said the law held them back from effective fireworks prosecutions. A reform measure ...

More than 16,000 chemicals are used to produce plastics — and some are silently killing us.

Lawmakers say Democrats were disappointed with his leadership, especially with the Hawaiʻi Legislature facing financial ...

On Jan. 1, 2026, Hawaiʻi will see another increase to the transient accommodations tax, raising the rate by 0.75% through legislation passed in Senate Bill 1396. The bill aims to fund disaster ...

Ninety Hawaiʻi residents under 18, most girls, got married in the last decade. State Sen. Joy San Buenaventura says marriage ...

Some fear the state Department of Agriculture does not have what it takes to do the work laid out for it by the Legislature.