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The speaker is facing his first primary competition in eight years, and a longtime activist is trying to unseat an incumbent on Molokai.

Political action committees are giving money to a suite of candidates running in state and local races.

Keith Amemiya and Steve Alm have raised and spent the most overall but their challengers gained momentum in the month leading up to the primary.

A seasoned politician squares off against a political newcomer who almost unseated him two years ago.

The nonpartisan With Honor Fund has ties to Jeff Bezos of Amazon and other billionaires.

Buoyed by the activism around TMT and a rare open seat, nearly a dozen people have entered the Hawaii island race to serve on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees.

The pandemic is spurring candidates to focus on how the Legislature and DOE will use limited funding for safety measures and access to distance learning.

Bud Stonebraker buys airtime along with “big five” Hannemann, Amemiya, Pine, Hanabusa and Blangiardi.

Elections officials are reluctant to purge voter rolls. But cases of people actually voting on someone else’s behalf almost never happen.

The independent expenditure committees are taking out ads for mayoral and council candidates as voters cast their mail-in ballots.