...Rep. Mark Takai, 49, dies after battle with pancreatic cancer....

The caregiver of an elderly Zika patient in Utah has been diagnosed with the virus, raising questions among health officials about how the virus was transmitted....

The outcome of this case may affect other situations where a state agency relies on an “internal management” argument and ignores that their procedures affect private or public rights....

...the agency should have adopted rules and because it had not, the specific practices were invalid....

Thirteen votes cast before both chambers go into recess until September 6....

Now you know what the NextEra fight was all about....

Trask: Current spending will bankrupt the OHA Trust fund in 9 years....

No mention of LNG in this news release....

Candidate information is available for all counties in Hawaii. Nearly three hundred candidates....

Linda Lingle took the stage at the Republican National Convention to call for new leadership on issues important to Jewish Americans....

Under the settlement, the two companies will spend about $403 million to install and operate pollution control equipment....

Four reasons to vote Djou....

NextEra Energy and Hawaiian Electric Industries announce termination of Merger Agreement....

Morita is petitioning the court to order Gorak to state the authority under which Gorak claims to be a PUC commissioner....

New York Eco-Lawyers sue their comrades in the NOAA.  The two sides will next collude in a 'settlement' to gain control of waters off Hawaii....

Robert Lindseyʻs disappearance at OHA started long before his stroke....

Ballots will be mailed in 5 days.  This election can be won with 50% + 1 vote....

#35 – deletes the requirement that no more than a majority of the reapportionment commission members shall be from the same political party....

...the Code doesn’t require an earmarked tax before an agency can commit....

Prices in urban Honolulu are 23.5% higher than average....

Hawaii's First Direct Primary Care Practice Opens in Kailua-Kona ....

Two Steps: Find Your Polling Place & Precinct then Enter Precinct Number to View Your Ballot....
 

House Bill 1041, establishing a statewide Game Management Advisory Commission was signed into law as Act 210, on July 5, 2016....

Akina is the leading voice for preserving the Aloha Spirit, as he has boldly stood to prevent the separating of Hawai'i into race-based nations.  Akina stands for UNITING Hawai'i, rather than dividing....

Legislators will convene on Monday, July 18th for a special session to determine whether $25 million in severance pay will be paid to union employees transitioning to new employment in a private hospital system....

In a 2-0 decision, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission today dismissed without prejudice....

Eligible proposers include financiers, developers, equipment manufacturers, nonprofit organizations, and other clean energy industry participants....

"The Hawaii State Constitution provides: 'The employment of persons in the civil service shall be governed by the merit principle....'"

Other bail bond companies are also being reviewed....

...OKs Ige to appoint (anti-NextEra) Tom Gorak on an interim basis to the Public Utilities Commission after (pro NextEra) Commissioner Mike Champley’s term expired....

The Djou for Mayor campaign will file its first campaign finance report today....

"I am now convinced DOCARE is cursed and doomed to remain a pathetic substandard agency...."

On June 15, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in three related bids to invalidate separate Hawaiian county ordinances....

On average, a cosmetologist needed 372 days in training while an EMT needed just 33....

...Who The Winners Are & Whoʻs Left Out Once Again....

...costs are the highest in the nation....

...Sum Total of Results: Rep Gil Riviere Switches to Democratic Party....

Touted by advocates as a model for laws in other states, HB 1739 nonetheless raised enforcement questions....

Complete list and links here ....

Andrew Santos, President of Admor HVAC, presented the State Department of Education an April 20 offer to Cool Schools at $5990 per classroom....

...Yesterday, when asked to respond on EMS staffing shortages, the mayor again refused to respond....

"The legislature must avoid establishing a costly disincentive that would hinder the saving of other neighbor islands' hospital systems through healthy public-private partnerships...."

Between low wages and high net prices, no state can claim that the average four-year college is affordable for low-income students....

...The Department of Public Safety said the air conditioning will remain on the generator until a faulty transformer can be replaced. The part has been ordered....

Each event is offered free of charge and will run from 5 to 7 p.m....