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UPDATED: The lawsuit by five Maui County residents seeks to give them more influence on how the law will be enforced.

Navy officials say the timeframe is unrealistic. The task force may revise its draft report before submitting it to the Legislature.

County officials on Maui are preparing to enforce the law and bracing for a potentially costly legal challenge.

State health officials say they will likely test for lead and other contaminants. The work could delay plans to move Honolulu’s homeless to Sand Island.

Kilauea’s flow has not advanced for five days, leaving residents time to ponder their fate. Some have lived through it all before.

The seed companies lost the ballot initiative election despite spending a state-record $7.9 million.

Opponents of the measure, including Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences, raised a historic $7.9 million to defeat the bill, more than any campaign in Hawaii’s history.

The Hawaii Attorney General’s Office is looking into a Facebook post that appears to offer services for a “yes” vote on the ballot question.

Proponents of the initiative have spent under $83,000, far less than the $5 million spent by Monsanto alone.

The senator pushed to let Hawaii fishermen keep hauling in bigeye tuna despite conservationist concerns about a declining population.