To be effective and competent at the Legislature, legislators and their staff need time to gather knowledge, analyze it, ...

We're paying a steep price for trying to jam too many people into a limited space that once allowed us to flourish.

Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and ...

A number of accountability bills have sailed through legislative committee hearings. Others could use some last-minute public support.

There’s also the fact that Hawaiʻi is the only Western state that doesn’t allow statewide citizens initiatives, in which voters can go over the heads of the Legislature and propose their own ballot ...

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Shootz! tags along with runners and mating butterflies, and catches the late-season swells on the North Shore.

Tristyn and Kamohai Kalama continue to renovate Oʻahu homes without proper permits even as their show seeks taxpayer ...

Lawmakers may hold off on extending the rail excise surcharge this year to see what the Trump administration does next.

Gordon Cordeiro was convicted for the 1994 killing of a Maui man during a drug deal robbery. This story was written by ...

Is it time for Hawaiʻi to make cannabis legal for recreational use? Or should we stick to medical use in our islands?

The case is one of only two felony convictions as a result of the Department of Law Enforcement's Illegal Fireworks Task ...