For six years, Hawaii and other Pacific islands enjoyed an exemption that allowed them to sell billfish on the mainland. Congress and President Trump just revoked it.

Megan Bailiff says her treatment by the late U.S. senator — and the staffers who protected him — changed her life.

Accusations against the revered Hawaii senator didn’t generate much of a public outcry 25 years ago.

The efforts of Hawaii’s former senators to secure the historic designation began in 2009, the same year that Hirono introduced a companion bill in the House.