Hawaiʻi State Government

Betting On Hawaiʻi Politics Is Legal Despite State’s Gambling Ban Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Betting On Hawaiʻi Politics Is Legal Despite State’s Gambling Ban

Users can now wager on when indicted Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke may resign on the prediction market app Kalshi, which is not covered by Hawaiʻi’s gambling law.

Public Begins To Weigh In On Offshore LNG Proposal David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

Public Begins To Weigh In On Offshore LNG Proposal

The public comment period is the first step in the pre-review of JERA Co.’s proposal, pitched as a fossil-fuel bridge to a future of all-renewable resources.

Governor Pressured To Bring Hawaiʻi Troops Back From Washington, D.C.  AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

Governor Pressured To Bring Hawaiʻi Troops Back From Washington, D.C. 

Local and national groups have sent letters to the Democratic governor urging him to recall the troops so that they aren’t deployed to police civilians in the district.

Influential Energy Researcher Quietly Backed By Big Money Climate Group File Photo

Influential Energy Researcher Quietly Backed By Big Money Climate Group

Governor criticizes energy expert as biased, others defend him as sound and scrupulous.

Campaign Spending Commission Files Civil Complaint Against Sylvia Luke Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Campaign Spending Commission Files Civil Complaint Against Sylvia Luke

The lieutenant governor is alleged to have mishandled election funds and filed false reports.

Officials’ ‘Grab And Go’ Taking Of Girl Leads To $950,000 Payout Courtesy: Hannah David

Officials’ ‘Grab And Go’ Taking Of Girl Leads To $950,000 Payout

State and Kauaʻi County workers coordinated the removal of the fifth grader without her mother’s knowledge — or an order from a judge

Gov. Green Saves Option To Go Green With Solar Credits In 2026 Courtesy: Blue Planet Foundation

Gov. Green Saves Option To Go Green With Solar Credits In 2026

Executive order preserves the solar energy tax credit for commercial and industrial uses that lawmakers had capped.

Hawaiʻi Is The Only State Not Tracking Abuse In Childcare Getty Images/iStockphoto

Hawaiʻi Is The Only State Not Tracking Abuse In Childcare

The state blames a bureaucratic hurdle for its failure to follow a federal law requiring it to report abuse and serious injuries in childcare settings.