Senate President Ron Kouchi, top, presides during the final day of the 2025 Hawaii legislative sessions inside the Senate ...

Senate President Ron Kouchi and House Speaker Nadine Nakamura discuss what lawmakers were able to accomplish, or not, during ...

We sit down with Senate President Ron Kouchi and House Speaker Nadine Nakamura to discuss what lawmakers were able to ...

Tourists — and local residents — who book hotel rooms and cruise ship cabins will begin providing $90 million to $100 million ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM A packed gallery listened as lawmakers voted on bills Wednesday during the Senate session at the state Capitol. 1 /3 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM A packed gallery listened as lawmakers voted on bills Wednesday during the Senate session at the state Capitol. 1 /3 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM ...

State senators from country and neighbor island districts rose up to kill an effort to ban assault rifles Wednesday at the ...

Tim Walz defended his proposed cuts to human services and education, and contrasted what he called responsible state ... House chamber of the Capitol in St. Paul. Walz is asking the Senate and ...

House and Senate negotiators need to agree to a topline number on that before formal talks on the rest of the state’s spending ... In talks between the chambers, McClure said the House had ...

Supporters of the bill gathered inside the state Senate chamber April 17 to watch what could be the final chapter in a law years in the making. After last-minute amendments failed, the bill passed ...

Of those, just 44 had passed both chambers ... the House and Senate minority caucuses introduced packages reflecting their values and priorities, such as eliminating the state individual income ...