House Bill 398 will reduce the numbers on the board from 15 to 11 and restructure the distribution of regents on Oahu.

Updated Friday 4/26/2019: Stay tuned. More decisions are coming Friday, the deadline for bills to clear conference committee.

The more than $19.7 million appropriation in House Bill 116 is in addition to a $16 billion spending plan approved in March.

House and Senate conferees decided to roll over Senate Bill 641 to next year.

The Aloha State could join four others in allowing gender neutral designations if House Bill 1165 becomes law.

UPDATED: Gov. David Ige had stood behind his embattled director amid concerns about jail overcrowding, fatal shootings and a recent riot.

A House-Senate conference committee approves the measure, and other election reform bills remain alive as well.

Hawaiian Electric Co. and the Hawaii Farm Bureau say that the potential rates may not be fair.

Oahu residents will choose among more than 500 candidates to sit on 36 boards representing the island’s neighborhoods.

Five senators voted “no” on the renomination, saying the department needs to go in a new direction.

The Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice analyzed the demographics of workers who could be impacted by an increase.

Funding for kupuna care programs were some of the outstanding big ticket items that weren’t included in the state’s operating budget in March.