Four state bills relating to immigration enforcement cleared their first legislative hurdle Wednesday, with all being passed 7-0 by the House Committee on Economic Development and Technology.

Hawaii lawmakers are proposing to shift the state’s invasive species response to the state Department of Agriculture.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands plans to drill two wells on a North Kona hillside with the intent of providing potable water to residents of the Villages of La‘i Opua, a DHHL master-planned community.

Hawaii could see its biggest one-time investment ever from state leaders this year to house the homeless.

State lawmakers will battle it out this session with competing bills dictating the powers of the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority.

Construction could begin this spring on a new public library adjacent to the Keaau Middle School campus.

For more than five decades, Stan Lawrence has been “Stan the Man” in the Big Island surfing community.

Lawmakers have introduced at least three bills in the current session of the Legislature relating to human trafficking and sex trafficking.

The state is once again on the hook for a decrepit building on Banyan Drive after the previous lessee of the former Country Club Condominium Hotel surrendered its permit for the property.

The Hawaii State Judiciary needs money to design a new courthouse in Wai­mea, add a District Court judge in Kona and address a “critical shortage” of court-appointed counsel in criminal and termination of parental rights cases, Hawaii Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald told state lawmakers Thursday.