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

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 ...

A bill that would allow legal mobile sportsbooks in Hawaii is nearing its final votes. The Hawaii state Senate has announced ... proponents hope can pass both chambers. The House is expected ...

State government funding is slated to be a little higher in the next two fiscal years compared with the current year under a budget agreement reached Monday evening by state House and Senate leaders.

With the Senate and House unable to reach agreement on tax cuts and spending, lawmakers will not finish negotiations on a new state budget in time to end the legislative session as scheduled next ...

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 ...