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Office Of Gov. David Ige/Gov. David Ige is proposing refunding $100 to every taxpayer and dependent as the economy and tax receipts recover from the coronavirus pandemic. -
Pixabay/An education advocacy group aims to improve mental health services in Hawaiʻi schools with several measures during this 2022 legislative session.
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State Rep. Patrick Branco is introducing a bill that makes advertising for unlicensed goods and services illegal. HB1516 affects businesses without state or county licensing. -
State officials say the new Aloha Stadium will meet the community's needs, regardless of whether professional sports come to the state.
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The Honolulu City Council Zoning Committee took up the contentious issue of short-term vacation rentals once again Thursday, approving an amended bill that includes some concessions to opponents of the measure. But as HPR’s Scott Kim reports, many owners of vacation units say the bill is still unnecessary because the city already has an ordinance to deal with the issue.
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Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi has named a new director to coordinate initiatives addressing homelessness on Oahu. Trish La Chica has been named executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Homelessness. She officially starts on Jan. 24.
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The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents approved a new master plan Thursday for its land on Maunakea — land highly coveted by astronomers and held sacred by some Native Hawaiians. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports the new plan limits the number of telescopes to nine.
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Jan. 20 marks the one-year anniversary of the swearing-in of the first black Asian female vice president, Kamala Harris. The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders celebrated the historic first.
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A former Hawaiʻi attorney general is preparing legal action against the Navy over jet fuel contamination of its Pearl Harbor water supply. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, Margery Bronster says she is targeting the Navy because it is ultimately responsible for the water crisis.
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Leaders of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives opened a new session of the Legislature on Wednesday with a proposal to raise the state's minimum wage to $18 an hour. They also want to spend $600 million on housing for Native Hawaiians on the waiting list for Hawaiian Home Lands.
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The state Senate and House of Representatives gave their opening remarks to kick off the 2022 legislative session on Wednesday. Here's what state leaders said about their legislative goals for the year.
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Replenishing unemployment insurance coffers, funding the state Department of Public Safety’s COVID response efforts at prisons, and boosting the state’s Safe Travels program — those were some of the ways the state spent $1.6 billion in federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act.
