... Additionally, due to the August 2023 Maui Wildfires, Ways and Means unanimously approved other emergency appropriation bills, House Bill 679 Senate Draft 2 and House Bill 2610 Senate Draft 2 ....

... The driver of the vehicle failed to stop to render aid and was last seen making a U-turn toward Kapa‘a ....

... February 2024 average daily census of 236,008 is a decline from 2023 ....

... Twenty years later, we are still having the same conversations ....

...When government is finally saying it is the problem, it’s on the right track to finding a solution....

... Hawaii hands out an average of 5,000 jaywalking tickets per year, the highest per capita in the nation, but that has done virtually nothing to promote pedestrian safety ....

... Green: No Permits to rebuild Until End of 2024 ....

"... Pro-Israel supporters at UHM planted Israeli flags in a common space to express their support for Israeli Jews following the Oct. 7 massacre ...."

... BLNR, BoE, UH Regents and more ...

... Many political disagreements divide neatly along party lines, but the protectionist Jones Act isn’t one of them ....

... outmigration since 2020 has resulted in the loss of $185 million in general excise taxes and state income taxes, or approximately $61.8 million per year ....

... prohibiting persons under the age of 21 from purchasing or possessing ammunition ....

... The Hawaii Senate committee’s approval of S.R. 168 and S.C.R. 196 is another example of how the Left supports an Article V convention and would use one to push radical, anti-American revisions to the U.S. Constitution ....

... Once Hawaii County forces families to apply for permits, the next step will be an effort to ban our industry entirely ....

... admitted to the emergency room with various burn marks, physical signs of dehydration and malnutrition, bruising at various stages of healing, and a fractured rib and femur bone ....

... it "harms the legal system, the profession, and the public" while fostering "a perception of privilege and arrogance" ....

... especially when wind, solar and hydroelectric output is lower than forecast ....

... The files, which were leaked from within the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), were published by the US-based think tank Environmental Progress ....

... bills that could significantly ease Hawaii's emergency-status housing crisis ....

... Resolution 24-65 contains most of the usual anti-housing rhetoric, and even claims that making it easier to create smaller, more affordable homes would somehow result in more so-called monster homes ....

... votes cast and bills introduced ....

... marijuana, abortion, parental rights ....

... 100 years later, only 9,800 homesteads have been opened and 28,000 Native Hawaiians remain on a waitlist ....

... some bills replace a current tax rate with a blank.  Or several blanks.  Those are scary because you don’t know what our lawmakers are thinking of putting in there ....

... the harsh limits on the allowable number of water fixtures per property could render density-increasing measures essentially meaningless ....

... 36% of Hawaii’s homeowner population has lived in its current residence for at least 24 years ....

... the sixth person charged in connection with the investigation into a group tied to Dexter Kiama and David Keanu Sai ....

... City suspends enforcement of a city ordinance that’s driving several restaurants in Waikiki out of business ....

... the Hawaii Public Utility Commission revealed it had not seen the document prior to the fires and only learned of its existence when HECO referenced it in HECO’s September 19, 2023, response ....

... The average mortgage balance in Hawaii was $366,362 in Q4 2023 ....

... Hawaii boasts the lowest percentages and costs in several key metrics ....

... This is the highest administrative fee ever issued by the Commission ....

... In total, 296 mortgages have been delinquent sometime in the period between August and November 2023; only 17 of which had already been delinquent in July 2023 prior to the fires .....

... These two measures would increase our housing supply not only on Oahu but throughout all of Hawaii by allowing smaller homes on smaller lots....

... High school graduation ceremonies have been scheduled for the Class of 2024 with date, time and location information listed below ....

... The Hawaii properties of Black Press were hit by a January ransomware attack that froze crucial computer systems ....

... states with the Best & Worst Taxpayer Return on Investment in 2024 ....

... Zoning Code, Permitting and Water Rules ....

... law allowing the governor and county mayors to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency ....

... The more Maui County is responsible, the less Hawaiian Electric owes.  And Maui County has sovereign immunity against lawsuits ....

... from the average annual wage of physicians to the number of hospitals per capita to the quality of the public hospital system ....

... How Miske Hitman ‘Kleaned House’ in Three Political Parties ....

... Recreational Marijuana Passes 'Joint' Hearing in House ....

... Hawaii taxpayers are going to be paying more for state government projects under a directive issued in February by Gov. Josh Green ....

... state law allows homeowners to divide their ownership rights into separate “lots of record” for ownership purposes, but the County Department of Planning and Permitting will still only recognize the property as one lot ....

... there are bills advancing that would, if enacted, fundamentally change how Hawaii’s estate tax works ....

... 2024 Legislature resumes session and Grassroot Institute is on the case ....

... a bill moving through the Legislature that would let pedestrians cross the street carefully and responsibly, regardless of whether they are in a crosswalk ....

... votes cast and bills introduced ....

... to allow legal protections for any non-parent with sufficient access and means to remove a child of any age from their home state, and to bring them to Hawaii in the name of receiving “Gender Affirming Care” ....