The case raises questions about whether the state could be on the hook for millions of dollars if other charter schools close.

Voters may be forced to wait in line this election season after the death of legislation that would have funded more county voter service centers.

The bill would create a new low-interest loan program to help eliminate some of the 80,000 cesspools leaking millions of gallons of sewage into Hawaiʻi’s nearshore waters daily.

The state House proposed an assortment of potential tax increases for the Senate to consider, but senators buried almost all of them without a hearing.

Faced with federal budget cuts, lawmakers hope to balance the budget in part by wiping out positions that have been vacant for more than five years.

Residents are worried the mess they are wading through is contaminated by chemicals sprayed on farms upstream. Test results are pending.

Language from one of the Senate education chair’s failed bills suddenly reappeared in an unrelated piece of legislation. Critics say that could be unconstitutional. 

Critics say cheap boards harm the ocean and give people a false sense of safety.

Bills to support families at risk for intervention by Child Welfare Services and fund domestic violence training for caseworkers are still alive at the Legislature.

A state Senate bill proposes a novel approach that one legal expert says would make the controversial national campaign finance law irrelevant in the islands.