Hawaii senators target robocalls
At least three bills have been introduced in the U.S. Senate to hopefully stem the tide of robocalls and increase...
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Hotels urge Ige to veto vacation rental taxation bill By Allison Schaefers
The American Hotel & Lodging Association along with heads of more than 10 Hawaii hotel companies are urging Gov. David...
Kim’s proposed $583.9M budget is up 12.7%
If Mayor Harry Kim has his way, more police will patrol the island, transfer stations won’t be closed on so...
Lawmakers wrap up 2019 legislative session By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press
HONOLULU — State lawmakers wrapped up their 2019 legislative session Thursday after several months of work at the state Capitol...
Officer misconduct bill stalls in conference committee
A measure that would have disclosed the names of officers discharged or suspended from a county police department died quietly...
Mail-in voting bill OK’d
A bill that would require all statewide elections to be conducted by mail beginning with the 2020 primary is headed...
Kim’s final budget plan includes fraction of additional positions sought by department chiefs
If department heads had their way, there would be 51 new positions added to the county workforce on top of...
State Senate narrowly passes vacation rental tax bill
HONOLULU — The state Senate on Tuesday narrowly passed a bill that would require websites such as Airbnb to collect...
Lawmakers again fail to agree on measures for Banyan Drive redevelopment
Redevelopment of Banyan Drive will have to wait until next year once again after the failure of three bills earlier...
Charter Commission says no to amendment that would abolish minimum tax
Some owners of vast Hamakua land holdings don’t pay much more in annual property taxes than an owner of a...
Lawmakers give preliminary OK to corrections reform measure By Sophie Cocke
Hawaii’s jails and prisons are poised to come under the oversight of an independent commission with powers to conduct investigations,...
State Senate might allow vacation rental platforms to collect taxes By Kevin Dayton
In the face of intense lobbying by the hotel industry, the state Senate signaled Thursday night it might once again...
Charter Commission rejects special election
Citing the cost and prospect of a low turnout, the Charter Commission on Thursday rejected the idea of a special...
Cardiac funding bill stalls
A bill that would further fund Hilo Medical Center’s interventional cardiac program has stalled in the final stages of the...
Embattled Public Safety director confirmed by Senate for another 4 years
KAILUA-KONA —The state Senate voted today to confirm Department of Public Safety director Nolan Espinda for another four years. The...
Lawmakers approve statewide mail-in voting By Kevin Dayton
Leading lawmakers have finally agreed on a plan to switch to statewide mail-in balloting starting in the 2020 election, a...
Funding measures for HINET, Hawaii Promise sent to Ige
Dozens of Hawaii Community College students will be among those who will benefit if legislation to fund programs intended to...
Office of Information Practices says ad hoc budget panel could violate state Sunshine Law
Behind-the-scenes budget meetings could run afoul of the state Sunshine Law, County Council members learned Tuesday. The council Finance Committee...
Mass Transit mismanagement could hurt entire state’s federal funding
Millions of dollars in federal funding could be in jeopardy because the county Mass Transit Agency didn’t submit its required...
(Oahu)Battle lines take shape as 2 vacation rental bills advance By Gordon Y.K. Pang
When it comes to the thorny issue of vacation rental homes on Oahu, it seems the clearer the issue gets,...
