... Though visitor spending decreased by 4.5 percent in January 2024, state general excise tax (GET) collections were up by 2.4 percent during the same month, an increase which can be attributed to household spending ....

... Senate Bill 3196 and Senate Bill 2845 were passed in the Senate and now have been transmitted to the House for further consideration ....

"This vote is about abuse of power."

... SB3335 will move to the House for further consideration ....

... $6,360,465.69 was collected in criminal actions and $278,322.42 was collected in civil actions ....

... "My Vote Is For Sale" ....

... Beginning Thursday, March 21 ....

... HB2802 HD1 proposes a constitutional amendment to repeal the Legislature's authority to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples ....

... a new “administrative directive” that requires all state construction projects worth more than $1.5 million to be performed under so-called project labor agreements ....

... “Congress must approve the recently renegotiated Compacts of Free Association as soon as possible,” said Case ....

... to phase out short-term rentals and impose higher taxes on them ....

... NSF discuss with the Board during the May 2024 meeting its plan to select which of the two candidate telescopes the Agency plans to continue to support ....

... regulatory costs $387,000 per unit ....

... “Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse,” the court wrote in a per curiam opinion ....

... Figures don't lie, but liars figure ....

... The new programs, originally scheduled to launch March 1, will now be available to customers starting April 1 ....

... clean energy procurements aimed at stabilizing rates and advancing energy equity ....

... DOH conducted a full safety and security review of the State Operated Specialized Residential Program (SOSRP) and Hawai‘i State Hospital (HSH) facilities ....

... Republicans cancel four Oahu caucus locations due to their inability to find anybody to staff them ....

... votes cast and bills introduced to Congress ....

... Here’s how the strategy works ....

... Honolulu's procedures for issuing CCW permits unduly delay and obstruct law-abiding citizens' ability to obtain them ....

... “There’s not been a lot of transparency” regarding how wildfire relief funds are being spent ....

... Short-term rental owners in Hawaii could hardly find a better spokesperson for their cause ....

... what we need is “the collective will to share the Mauna” ....

... proposed $3.63 billion Operating and $919 million Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budgets for the 2025 fiscal year ....

... DPR planted a new Monkeypod tree ....

... to retire on November 5, 2024, at the end of his present term ....

... After Hurricane Iniki struck Kauai in 1992, the Kauai County Council adopted an ordinance similar to this bill to foster the reconstruction of old, nonconforming structures ....

... reform the County’s emergency housing permitting policies to help facilitate a quicker recovery for the residents of Lahaina ....

... January 2024, total visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands (763,480 visitors, -3.6%) and total visitor spending measured in nominal dollars ($1.81 billion, -4.5%) declined compared to January 2023 ....

... UH is working with MKSOA to transfer its leases, conservation district use permits, and an easement for lands on Maunakea to the new authority ....

... Public comment on Sanctuary draft proposal requested through May 7, 2024 ....

... The Supreme Court previously declined energy companies’ request to consider whether the claims should be heard in federal court ....

"...a more fair, equal and sustainable capitalism...."

... for middle income earners, taxes take 13.62% of income--highest in the USA ....

... turnover of the temporary King Kamehameha III Elementary School in Lahaina to the Hawai‘i State Department of Education Feb. 27 ....

... the study from Washington, D.C.-based Smart Growth America commissioned by AARP Hawai‘i didn’t account for numerous affordable-housing projects ....

"... to advocate for the construction of one-thousand permanent FEMA-built housing units to house the wildfire survivors ...."

... two proposals that would increase the transient accommodation tax, known as TAT ....

... there were no professional licenses in Hawaii before Captain Cook arrived, therefore unlicensed midwifery is 'indigenous' ....

"...The Fund Will Help Families of Deceased Avoid Lengthy, Uncertain Litigation...."

... Democrats hold primary March 6; GOP caucuses will be March 12 ....

... Employees in Hawaii can expect to shell out more than a quarter of the median household income to work from the office ....

... officers who worked in a patrol function through the pandemic will receive 20% Hazard Pay based on the actual number of hours worked during the pandemic. All other officers will receive 15% Hazard Pay. All officers will receive 15% Hazard Pay for actual overtime hours ....

... it was only a year ago that state lawmakers had a healthy budget surplus to work with. But then they went on an ill-advised spending spree ....

... Party-run Presidential Primary from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. ....

... 197 prescriptions have been written for death-inducing drugs in Hawaii since the passage of the state’s “medical aid in dying” law in 2019 ....

... inflation means you’re not making any more money, but you’re being taxed a lot more for the money that you’re making ....

... After the state Division of Financial Institutions started implementing stringent cryptocurrency regulations in 2014, crypto companies started fleeing the state ....