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From sliding through their own pay raises to snuffing reform bills, lawmakers' incumbency machine runs as quietly as possible ...
Josh Green appeared with his Heal America political action committee partners while on a state-sponsored trip.
If you watched the first state championship game, you might have thought Hawaiʻi schools had always played flag football.
This one has some, let’s just say, challenging words for all you Sunday word-game lovers. Too hard? Too weird? Let us know.
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Housing advocates unsuccessfully pushed for bills that would have given cash incentives for deed restrictions that require a ...
Some fear the state Department of Agriculture does not have what it takes to do the work laid out for it by the Legislature.
The legislative session was punctuated by an arrest in yet another child death, but lawmakers did not act on recommendations ...
President Trump has said he wants to deport hardened criminals. But on Hawaiʻi, agents are snaring undocumented children and ...
The federal government will no longer track the nation's costliest natural disasters. A local solution can fill some of the ...
The Legislature funded minor workforce development initiatives but did not invest much in diversifying the local economy.