Five-year-old Charlotte “Sharkey” Schaefers drowned 21 years ago after saving a 3-year-old boy in a poorly maintained and overflowing detention retention pond, and her legacy…
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The Hawaii Department of Transportation will implement its Hawaii Road Usage Charge (HiRUC) program for light-duty passenger electric vehicles (EVs) effective July 1, following a…
Gov. Josh Green signed the nearly $40 billion executive biennium budget bill on Monday, June 30, 2025. Allocating $19.8 billion to state operations for fiscal…
Hawaii continues to make progress in its effort to provide broadband internet to rural areas, neighbor islands and even parts of urban Oahu despite cuts…
Hawaii and 19 other states were granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday to prevent the dismantling of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, just…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After an overnight session and hours of floor debate, the House voted Thursday in favor of the “Big Beautiful Bill” — giving…
The Legislature’s funding of $350 million to private developers to build a new Aloha Stadium will not be forfeited back to the state because a…
LIHUE – Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami announces that Chief of Staff Sarah K. Blane will depart the County of Kauai in July after more than…
A special state envoy has been tasked with better informing the public about contamination and remediation of Oahu’s freshwater aquifer polluted by the Navy’s Red…
U.S. Rep. Ed Case is blasting military appropriation legislation that is moving through the House of Representatives as “shortchanging” priorities critical to Hawaii, including environmental…