Hawaii does not have any toll roads, but that may change if a bill introduced this legislative year passes. Senate Bill 217 ...

Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former GOP leader, was the sole Republican voting against Gabbard’s nomination as the ...

Ernest Robello told a joint hearing of the Senate committees on Transportation ... on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that Hawaii has to ship seized, illegal pyrotechnics to the mainland ...

On the same day that a sixth victim died following the Aliamanu New Year’s fireworks blast, various state Senate committees passed bills Wednesday that would increase fines and penalties for people ...

the Libertarian Party of Hawaii and the state Office of Public Defender. HPD Lt. Ernest Robello told a joint hearing of the Senate committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that ...

According to the American Gaming Association, Americans wagered close to $64 billion illegally in 2022. They estimate $300 ...

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Hawaii senators have declined to move forward with a statewide ban on all fireworks but are working to significantly strengthen law enforcement’s ability to investigate and prosecute illegal fireworks ...

Revels served in the Senate for 13 months ... s Global Center for Business and the Economy. Born in Hawaii, Obama became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review and then ...

Gov. Josh Green’s bills to fund Hawaii’s climate change response by increasing the state’s hotel room tax and dedicating all ...