A gloomy new forecast is depressing the amount of state tax revenue Hawaii’s Legislature has available to finalize its budget ...

Last week, the bill sliced through its first consideration by the Hawaii Senate Joint Committee on ... as those features were removed prior to House committee consideration to keep the bill ...

A special member of the state Commission on Water Resource Management, whose appointment by Gov. Josh Green in October led to ...

Josh Green in October led to litigation, has resigned. V.R. Hinano Rodrigues stepped down from his position as the commission’s traditional Native Hawaiian water management expert, according to the ...

A bill that would generate new revenue for the state to address climate change and reduce the risk of future wildfires by ...

A number of Hawaii grant programs, nonprofit services, and research projects have been stalled by the freezes, and some have had funds restored by prior rulings ... the Senate and the House, ...

After being shocked by President Donald Trump's flurry of activity to slash and burn the federal government, progressive activists have a new strategy for fighting back: protesting congressional ...

A government shutdown was averted just hours before the Friday 11:59 p.m. deadline after enough Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., helped Republicans defeat the ...

Shutdown averted: The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government ... team — Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada — and two who ...

30, cleared the Senate on Friday after enough Democrats ... Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire; Brian Schatz of Hawaii; and Gary Peters of Michigan. Angus King, a Maine independent ...

House Bill 133 and its companion, Senate Bill 178, would provide as-yet ... for a hearing Thursday by the House Finance Committee. Prior bills have died after resistance from the state Department ...

Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023 ... and the Battle for Our Democracy," published in September 2023. Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono grilled Patel during his confirmation hearings on reports that ...