Senators Russell Ruderman, Glenn Wakai, Lee Ihara, Mike Gabbard and Gilbert Keith-Agaran voted in the affirmative but with reservations.  A no vote at this stage serves to exclude the person voting no from participating in the Conference Committee....

...one campus (Honolulu) classified a 2011 graduate of an Accounting program as employed in the field based upon a food service job she started at Taco Bell in June 2006....

A majority of the bills will go into conference committees where the House and Senate conferees will convene to settle differences....

...the DBC Program paid $2.6 million in deposit refunds for approximately 3.5 million pounds of recycled materials that cannot be accounted for....

The state House of Representatives passed today nearly 150 Senate measures....

Facts learned during the course of the investigation will determine whether the attorney general’s office pursues or recommends criminal charges....

When I hear the slogans used by protests calling to “rise up,” I have a different concept in my mind....

HB134 will be voted on this Tuesday - 4/14 - in the State Senate....

Smoke produced by burning incense and candles can be worse than the pollution found next to a busy road....

...legislators from Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico came together for a videoconference forum to discuss legislative developments on the Jones Act for their respective jurisdictions....

HB1075 concerns the creation of a public-private partnership for the Maui Hospital System....

Having farms in Hawaii helps speed up the process....

With Suzanne Case being the Chairperson of DLNR there will be no animals to harvest because of fences and eradication....

In 1991, my father died of AIDS. None of my father’s partners/ex-partners are still alive....

Former Attorney General Michael Lilly has requested DCCA and DAGS review the expenditure of over $800,000 on two vendors by the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission without public bid....

...Hawaii State Capitol Auditorium on Thursday, April 16th @ 7 PM....

...we are getting closer to a resolution on the two bills that are seeking to extend the life of the 0.5% Oahu county surcharge on our general excise tax....

NewsHour special correspondent Mike Taibbi reports....

Senator Slom says, "We should have learned something from the Kamamalu Building."

OHA leaders have emphasized the need for all parties to address the unresolved legal matter$ while the TMT construction moratorium remains in place....