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Dennis Mitsunaga's attorney said the injury supports her prior argument that her elderly client shouldn't have been detained.

Access to water is still in flux, but the Maui modular home housing project now has county approval to open 16 of 88 units.

A Michigan woman and her family are suing a Maui resort, the Hawaiian Tourism Authority and the Hawaii Visitors and ...

Prosecutors and judges should treat officers who falsify reports like they would any other criminal defendant.

Everybody loved this measure as it flew through the Legislature, but it still died mysteriously in the session’s final days.

Hawaii lawmakers voted to give judges more leniency in sentencing residents busted for marijuana possession in 1969. Nearly a ...

Experts say regulating contractor donations along with publicly financed elections could go a long way to taming corruption.

It took an unprecedented disaster on Maui to spur the House and Senate into action. Let’s keep the mojo going, because so ...

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Hawaii Senate President Ron Kouchi was for years among the closet allies of Milton Choy, the recently convicted businessman ...