The Legislature made some progress this year in increasing government transparency, but leading politicians say there is still much more work to be done.

Much of the new spending supports Native Hawaiians and working people while boosting the rainy day fund.

Updated: Longtime Maui Sen. Roz Baker is one of three veteran senators and several House members who are departing this year.

The chamber’s top leader explains what it took to make legislative history.

The governor is considering a bill to transfer management of Hawaii’s tallest mountain from UH to a new governing authority.

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

Dozens of bills flew under the radar in the last two weeks of the 2022 legislative session as lawmakers hashed out details on hundreds of measures.

The House and the Senate could not agree on allowing APRNs and physician assistants to prescribe the lethal drug.

Other measures approved Tuesday would settle claims by Hawaiians on the homelands waitlist, and require judges to release some petty, non-violent offenders without bail.

Touted as an antidote to the youth vaping epidemic, the bill lost the support of advocates worried about a loophole in the ban.