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Everybody loved this measure as it flew through the Legislature, but it still died mysteriously in the session’s final days.

It took an unprecedented disaster on Maui to spur the House and Senate into action. Let’s keep the mojo going, because so ...

Hawaii lawmakers voted to give judges more leniency in sentencing residents busted for marijuana possession in 1969. Nearly a ...

Experts say regulating contractor donations along with publicly financed elections could go a long way to taming corruption.

Hawaii Senate President Ron Kouchi was for years among the closet allies of Milton Choy, the recently convicted businessman ...

Civil Beat is a small nonprofit newsroom that provides free content with no paywall. That means readership growth alone can’t ...

Publicly naming a business is defensible if a business is indeed involved with infested plants, Sen. Karl Rhoads, a lawyer, ...

Sine die at the Capitol and a rally at the University of Hawaii end a week that began with hundreds of bicyclists on the ...

For years, Terri Ann Otani allegedly made straw donations in her niece's name. When the feds found out, Otani left voicemails ...

The ability of fire departments to muster extra help during major wildfires is a critical issue for the state as it grapples ...

Despite a settlement reached two years ago, Hawaiian petrels continue to be harmed by bright lights at Grand Wailea in ...