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A voting record that seems to value business concerns over the environment should persuade senators to reject a nominee who would be 87 by the end of his term.

Legislators are close to approving legislation that would license and heavily regulate production centers and dispensaries. It’s about time.

Testimony Tuesday was candid and caustic in the Honolulu Police Department’s accreditation forum. Recent events involving HPD should prompt a close review.

The powerful House committee chair eliminated the legislation’s limit on interest rates after assuring colleagues a rate cap was included in the bill.

A flood of new enrollment signups and two pieces of helpful legislation portend well for the Hawaii health insurance exchange’s long-term prospects.

Medical, psychological experts agree: Transgender people should be able to have their birth certificates revised without surgery first. Hawaii should make the change.

Mayor Billy Kenoi should consider stepping down, as investigations proceed on $22,000 in personal charges on his government purchasing card.

In his second attempt at picking a new Department of Land and Natural Resources chief, the governor taps an experienced conservation lawyer with deep local roots.

As Hawaii’s new governor’s to-do list grows, early challenges impart a lasting lesson: Sometimes words are every bit as important as deeds.

Hawaii students are more likely to be bullied and attempt suicide than the national average. House Bill 819 would change the way we approach this challenge.