At the midpoint of the session, the crossover deadline forces lawmakers to make choices. Bills move forward, or they quietly ...

Gov. Josh Green is negotiating an agreement with a Japanese rail conglomerate to work on transit-oriented development along ...

Flooding damaged elevators in the 16-story building. Repair of the main passenger elevator will take months. A five-month ...

Echoing strong community sentiment, the County Council has joined the chorus calling on the U.S. Air Force to reject an environmental review of the project.

School Community Councils were created under Act 51 to provide community participation in school governance. In theory, School Community Councils allow parents, teachers and community members to help ...

A green energy group that previously opposed the rate increase has joined HECO in asking regulators to hike rates.

Conference Room 411 at the State Capitol was packed on Feb. 12 as testifiers spoke at length about major bills of interest ...

To begin with, democracy is not something we earn, it is the truth of the world. In his book “ Two Cheers for Politics ,” ...

Makana Eyre is a journalist based in Paris. He has written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Foreign Policy. He is the ...

A Senate bill would replace party primaries with a single open primary in which every candidate appears on one ballot and ...

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