"Senate Education Week provides an opportunity to recognize the hard work and dedication of students and educators across our state." ...

The Legislature has reached the halfway point of its five-month session with different approaches between the House and Senate over how to preserve tax breaks for most Hawaii residents as legislators ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. This year marks the fourth legislative session since the ...

Colleen Hanabusa, who represented Hawaiʻi in the U.S. House of Representatives, died Thursday after a private battle with cancer. She was 74. Hanabusa, a Democrat, served twice in the House, from 2011 ...

Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who was the first woman to serve as president of the Hawaii State Senate, has died. She ...

Hanabusa was first elected to the Hawaiʻi Senate in 1998 and served in the upper chamber through 2010, including a stint as the first woman Senate president. She went on to win one of Hawaiʻi's two ...

Hawaiʻi is mourning a political leader who rose from the Waiʻanae Coast to the halls of Congress.

Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa has died after a private battle with cancer. She was 74.

Bribing an elected official would bring increased penalties under three bills that passed out of a key Senate committee Tuesday as the state attorney general continues to investigate an unidentified ...