The state agency charged with enforcing Hawaii’s campaign finance laws is reviewing several years’ worth of records from past races by state Rep. Kaniela Ing, who is running for Congress this year. Read more
The state Legislature wrapped up for the year Thursday as lawmakers called the 60-day session one of the most collaborative and productive in recent memory. Read more
Lawmakers say they made good on their pledge to address the state’s homeless and affordable-housing crises with strategies they described as groundbreaking and bold during the 2018 legislative session, which ends Thursday. Read more
Lawmakers appear to have failed for a third straight year to resolve the conundrum over how best to tap into millions of dollars in uncollected state taxes from short-term vacation rentals without encouraging or endorsing illegal operators. Read more
With the Hawaii State Legislature set to adjourn in a week, lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to several significant bills, including a measure that would make it illegal to sell or own “bump stock” devices, like the ones used last year by a gunman to spray gunfire into a Las Vegas crowd. Read more
Hawaiian Electric Co. and its neighbor island subsidiaries will no longer be able to set electricity rates based on utility expenses, under legislation Gov. David Ige signed into law Tuesday. Read more
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As work gets underway on a far-reaching audit of the multibillion-dollar rail project, state Auditor Les Kondo warned officials that his office has already identified potential red flags. Read more
Following a two-year lobbying effort by the Hawaii State Teachers Association, a proposed constitutional amendment asking voters if the state should be allowed to tax investment properties to benefit public schools is all but set for the November ballot. Read more
With less than four months until the primary election, three candidates vying for the U.S. House seat representing urban Honolulu raised more than $200,000 each in the first three months of the year. Read more
Gov. David Ige has appointed Troy Hashimoto, former chairman of the Maui Democratic Party, to the Maui House seat vacated by Joseph Souki, who resigned last month to resolve sexual harassment allegations. Read more
Three finalists, including a former Maui County councilman and a Maui Democratic Party chairman, have been named to replace longtime Wailuku lawmaker Joseph Souki, who resigned Opens in a new tab last month from the House of Representatives to resolve sexual harassment allegations. Read more
Three finalists, including a former Maui County councilman and Maui Democratic Party chairman, have been named to replace longtime Wailuku lawmaker Joseph Souki, who resigned last month from the House of Representatives to resolve sexual harassment allegations. Read more
In the closest Senate vote this year, lawmakers voted 15-8 in favor of a ban on new construction atop Mauna Kea, but the effort is likely to collapse as their counterparts in the House say they don’t want to interfere with the Thirty Meter Telescope planned near the mountain’s summit. Read more
Hawaii’s U.S. senators paid tribute on the Senate floor Monday to the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, who died Friday Opens in a new tab at age 93. Read more
Hawaii’s U.S. senators paid tribute on the Senate floor today to the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, who died Friday at age 93. Read more
Condolences and fond remembrances began pouring in, from Hawaii to Washington, as news spread of the death of former U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, who died Friday at age 93 from organ failure. Read more
Beginning Jan. 1, terminally ill patients in the final stages of dying will have the option to control when, where and how they die, following Gov. David Ige’s signing Thursday of a bill to legalize medically assisted death. Read more
Beginning Jan. 1, terminally ill residents will be eligible to begin requesting prescriptions for life-ending medication, following Gov. David Ige’s signing today of the “Our Care, Our Choice” Act into law. Read more
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono says her ongoing cancer battle has not detracted from her congressional duties, and that she’s running for re-election to continue fighting for Hawaii’s families and kupuna. Read more
Hawaii voters would be asked to decide whether the state should tax “investment real property” to support public education, under a proposal that lawmakers advanced Wednesday. Read more
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono says her ongoing cancer treatment has not affected her Congressional duties, and that she’s running for re-election to continue fighting for Hawaii’s families and kupuna. Read more
