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The massive recommendations of a once-a-decade task force are moving ahead, despite concerns that some go too far.

The Senate is considering a bill to allow judges to order some defendants to stay at a homeless shelter.

Hawaii lawmakers have advanced legislation that requires large agribusinesses to disclose what pesticides they spray on their crops.

UPDATED. State lawmakers are considering more than two dozen bills that would affect the Public Utilities Commission.

Bankers, former regents and contractors supported the measure while the Ethics Commission and University of Hawaii faculty union opposed it.

The Ige administration is looking at various financing options for building a new Oahu Community Correctional Center in Halawa Valley, lawmakers are told.

The measure is deferred, but another making it illegal to smoke in a car containing minors is passed by the Senate Transporation and Energy Committee.

The proposals come in response to recent high-profile incidents involving police officers. Other caucus priorities at the Hawaii Legislature are domestic violence and sex trafficking.

The high costs of prisons may finally lead legislators to look seriously at an alternative to incarceration that’s widely used elsewhere.

A proposed law would require the Employees’ Retirement System to divest from fossil fuel companies in five years.