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The Hilo native says he’ll run a grassroots campaign that rejects donations from corrupt special interests.

The Hawaii Department of Healths state laboratory in Pearl City conducts important testing, especially amid the COVID pandemic and the Red Hill crisis.

Hawaii lawmakers passed almost every proposal they said they would in a rare session bolstered by billions of dollars in extra revenue.

State legislators passed landmark legislation to help buoy a long-troubled program for making reparations to Native Hawaiians. The move follows a ProPublica and Star-Advertiser investigation.

As the legislative session winds down, lawmakers have been working on some major legislation in conference committee.

A new bill is hoping to add more urban land to the DHHL portfolio to provide housing for Native Hawaiians, and ease a decades-long waitlist for housing.

HALIEWA, Hawaii – The bluff collapse on Oahu’s North Shore collapse is now prompting more widespread concern about similar happenings around the state’s shorelines.

The North Shore collapse is now prompting more widespread concern about similar happenings around the states shorelines.

Valeriya Kamphaus says she feels helpless watching whats happening in her home country, Ukraine, from all the way in Hawaii.

Lawmakers are promoting several bills this session to address the issue, including licensing cryptocurrency, something other states have already done.