The year-old state Department of Law Enforcement would get new funding and an increased mandate to crack down on illegal ...

The biggest thing that hurts public trust is, ‘How can it be this bad,’ Right? ‘How is it possible? Who is involved?’ And ...

Deputy Attorney General Tricia Nakamatsu joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss key bills passed this ...

Federal agents find hundreds of pounds of illegal fireworks every year in mail headed for Hawaiʻi addresses, and packages are regularly seized and destroyed. Yet the senders of those packages, and the ...

Hawaii legislators are poised to take their final votes Wednesday on more than 200 bills, including measures that would fund ...

Bruce Albrecht, director of operations at Hawaii Explosives & Pyrotechnics, Inc., spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz ...

Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort is returning the Friday night fireworks to its normal start time of 7:45 p.m.

Hawaii lawmakers have bolstered the state fireworks provisions with a handful of successful bills, and not a moment too soon.

Hawaii lawmakers passed the budget for the next two years and began voting on more than 200 bills as the legislative session draws to a close.

The Straub Benioff team said Charmaine Benigno had the most complex, severe burns that covered more than 80 percent of her body.

He said he has zero tolerance for any officer or firefighter involved in — or who tolerates — Hawaii’s illegal, multimillion- dollar fireworks trade. “To me it’s offensive to be a first ...