The bill falls short of what advocates hoped for, but they're celebrating a step forward nonetheless and asking the governor to sign it.

The newly launched Kupuna Caregivers Program will help working caregivers pay for vital support services for their elderly charges.

No specific dates have been set for the special session and no rail funding mechanism has been agreed upon yet.

Currently, graduate students at UH are the only state-employed workers that are not permitted to unionize or collectively bargain with their employer.

The nonprofit says that the proposed program fails to live up to lawmakers’ vision for dramatically expanding access to clean energy in Hawaiʻi.

HB553 would allow graduate assistants at UH to collectively bargain and form a labor union, but Governor Ige has informed the legislature of his intent to veto the bill.

The plan for how to use beneficiary lands is the first ever community-created one to be presented to lawmakers and the governor.

The measure is a result of an incident in which U.S. State Department special agent Christopher Deedy fatally shot Kollin Elderts in Waikiki while intoxicated.

The ban would include electronic smoking devices and betel nut products as well.

As of yesterday, both houses of the state legislature have passed resolutions urging President Obama to support Taiwan's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Two highly pervasive invasives are destroying iconic Big Island crops; the state legislature is working on bills that would fund new efforts to combat the pests.