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Dozens of bills introduced by the state House and Senate augur well for major improvements if lawmakers can actually seal the deals.

City Council candidate Tommy Waters and state Senate candidate Matt LoPresti both lost their races by razor-thin margins.

The House and Senate plan to install new judiciary chairs but keep the current heads of each chamber and their respective money committees.

When the Garden’s Isle’s 14 precinct stations shut down Tuesday night, it might have been for the last time. An all-mail ballot experiment begins in 2020.

The 398,398 ballots cast in this general election represented a turnout rate of 52.6 percent — slightly higher than in 2014.

But local Republicans took solace in their expanded majority in the U.S. Senate.

On Kauai, voters were rejecting an amendment that would repeal the current term limits on County Council members.

Incumbent Gov. David Ige and his running mate, Josh Green, easily defeated GOP challengers Andria Tupola and Marissa Kerns in Hawaii’s gubernatorial election.

A company that made a big splash by hiring away public officials has aided the campaigns of the teachers union, an OHA candidate and a Maui super PAC.

There’s a lot of drama on the mainland with control of Congress up for grabs. Hawaii’s races hold less suspense.