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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

Legislators passed a historic new green fee. They also kicked some of Hawaiʻi's most daunting environmental challenges down ...