A petition filed to Hawaii’s State House and Senate alleges a legislator accepted tens of thousands of dollars. The citizens’ ...

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JAMM AQUINO / 2025 Hawaii’s Commission on Salaries has unanimously approved a series of pay raises for state officials. Shown here, the opening of the 33rd Hawaii State Legislature in the Senate ...

Online sports betting in Hawaii is now one step closer to becoming a reality. House Bill 1308, which would see the launching of online sportsbooks in the Aloha State, passed in the House of ...

Legal Hawaii sportsbooks are nearing reality after the state Senate approved a legalization bill Tuesday. The proposal faces several additional steps before passage, but Tuesday’s vote clears one more ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii state senators got a rare look inside the state bunker that houses confiscated illegal fireworks. On Friday, senators were briefed on how the Hawaii Department of Law ...

HONOLULU (Island News) – District 19’s Senator Henry J.C. Aquino announced his retirement from the Hawaii State Senate on Wednesday. District 19 consists of Pearl City, Waipahu, West Loch Estates, ...

HONOLULU (CN) — The Hawaii State Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs advanced a slew of gun control bills Wednesday that together would increase penalties for felons with firearms, ...

The University of Hawaii Cancer Center in Kakaako. “Now providing less than half the funding compared with that of 2009, this source of allocation is no longer able to support its original intent to ...

Imagine getting a letter from your home insurance company explaining that your annual bill was going to be 10 times higher this year, even though you'd never made a claim for damages to your home.

There are only two U.S. states that have zero forms of legalized gambling (no sports betting, casino, daily fantasy, horse racing, etc.)—Utah and Hawaii. Are the tides about to turn in the Aloha State ...