JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Senate President Ronald Kouchi, left, took the gavel from Sen. Lorraine Inouye. Kouchi said reducing wildfire risks statewide is a top priority for lawmakers.

From left, U.S. Sen. Brian Shatz, Gov. Josh Green and HUD Regional Administrator Jason Pu celebrate Hawaiʻiʻs receipt of a $6 ...

It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of the “color revolutions” in former Soviet Republics offers powerful ...

More than two centuries later, it remains an invaluable institution that helps safeguard us against the tyranny of the ...

Christians will make up 87% of voting members in the Senate and House of Representatives, combined, in the 2025-27 ...

Dozens of advocates fought through heavier-than-usual downtown traffic and hard-to-find parking around the state Capitol on ...

Nadine Nakamura delivered her first speech as Hawaii’s first female House speaker ... This is a national problem,” Kouchi said, “and it may take us working with the federal government ...

If you’re looking for me to sugarcoat the reality we’re facing, I can’t do that,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett tells Harper’s Bazaar ...

But for BIA Hawaii and Roseann Freitas ... they could see themselves in these roles and they were excited. One of the union representatives talked to them. … She told us, “They’re fighting over which ...