Given the nature of negotiations, the proposal HSTA took to the table is a starting point and is subject to change....

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Growth in total visitor expenditures and arrivals in every month of the year elevated annual 2012 total visitor expenditures to a record $14.3 billion....

All Hawaii public school principals will receive enhanced supports and evaluations beginning in the 2013-14 school year under an agreement between the Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) and the Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA)....

Hawaii Renewable Energy Projects Directory....

“So that there is no mistake, or confusion, and our position is clear and apart from both the Executive and Majority Legislative branches...."

Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....

• Queens: 54 patients waiting
• Maui Memorial: 41 patients waiting
• Kuakini Hospital: 20 patients waiting

Think your state has equal representation in the Senate? Well, that could be eliminated soon.

Abercrombie was right about one thing in his 2013 State of the State speech, there are too many answers in the form of solutions being proposed before sufficient questions are asked and researched....

No hunter or target shooter currently uses an “assault weapon”. The term is a political and media invention, intended to cause confusion....

House Bill 17 is scheduled for its first hearing in the House Committee on Water and Land on Friday, January 25 at 8:30 a.m. in House Conference Room 325....

In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month....

"...we have a pretty good mess on First Wind and it is looking like it is going to get a lot worse and quickly...."

Today, the House will vote on a proposal that would suspend the debt ceiling until May 19....

The purpose of the NPC is solely to advise, inform and make recommendations to the Secretary of Energy with respect to any matters relating to oil and natural gas....

As public audits recently revealed, it's difficult to trust the Department of Health to spend our tax dollars wisely....  

“I believe comprehensive educational reform can still be done, but not with the ill will the current administration has sown among the educators."

We should proceed with cautious optimism and be careful not to overcommit our state’s financial resources during our fragile economic recovery....

• House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Substitute Amendment
• House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Long-term Recovery Aid
• House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Final Passage
• House: Disaster Aid Reform