Hawaii’s Commission on Salaries has unanimously approved a series of pay raises for state officials. Shown here, the opening of the 33rd Hawaii State Legislature in the Senate chamber on on Jan. 15 at ...

The list of annual state holidays in Hawaii could grow by one under legislation that easily passed a milestone last week.

A proposed statewide public financing program for political campaigns was once again shot down Wednesday, even as a raft of election reform measures remain alive.

Voters in Hawaii, Colorado and California all voted last year to support ballot initiatives that changed their state constitutions to give same-sex couples the right to marry. But now, the Supreme ...