Politics

February 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

LIHUE — Representative Jill Tokuda is actively seeking community members affected by the recent policies and layoffs implemented by the Trump Administration and the Department of Governm...

February 25, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A team of deputy attorneys general are coordinating legal counterattacks to President Donald Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” efforts to reshape funding for states and ho...

February 24, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Hawaii consumers and businesses could see a 100% spike in the cost to discard beverage containers via curbside recycling, the trash and other means outside of a state redemption program....

February 22, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

LIHUE — Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami will be the special guest at the next Lihue Business Association meeting on Thursday, Feb. 27, held upstairs at Duke’s Restaurant.

February 20, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A proposal to help subsidize the installation of animal control fences is the only survivor of four bills in the state Legislature aimed at controlling pigs, goats and sheep.

February 19, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

State lawmakers are advancing further this year down a path toward possibly using nuclear power to make electricity in Hawaii.

February 18, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard will be tested immediately on how she will handle threats to national security and U.S. troops as America’s new director of national intelligence.

February 18, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Fear and uncertainty loom large over how much smaller the federal workforce in Hawaii will become under an unfolding multipronged effort by President Donald Trump, though the impact may be les...

February 17, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Lawmakers for the third time have introduced a bill aimed at strengthening workplace safety for educational workers following concerns from advocates about the state Department of Education&rs...

February 15, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Hawaii lawmakers are considering big funding increases to produce homesteads for state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries after a historic $600 million appropriation in 2023....

February 15, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Hawaii State Teachers Association leaders, including some who are educators themselves, joined a large group of teachers, parents, students and elected officials in Washington, D.C., on Wednes...

February 14, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Gov. Josh Green doubts that Hawaii’s insurance market will suffer from a Monday court decision supporting a tentative $4 billion Maui wildfire settlement, but he still sees merit in shar...

February 14, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and 21 of her Senate colleagues are calling on newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to address critical staffing shortages at the National Park Serv...

February 13, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A Senate bill remains alive that would require University of Hawaii medical school students to remain in Hawaii for two years after they complete their residencies, but the House version has d...

February 13, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence in a 52-48 vote that demonstrated President Donald Trump’s polit...

February 13, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The Kauai County Council unanimously passed a resolution “urging the Hawaii State Legislature to Implement Safe Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Requirements for Hospitals” during its Kau...