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Hawaii human-trafficking activists say Kathryn Xian’s in-your-face style is hindering progress and hurting the victims they are trying to help. Now, she’s in danger of losing her seat on a statewide task force working to find solutions to the issue she’s so closely identified with.

UPDATED State ethics director Les Kondo may be under fire, but he seems to have gotten their attention. A review of this year’s spending shows legislators are much less inclined to spend public money on questionable expenses.

The program establishes a new coordinator position to help navigate the food procurement system.

Hawaii officials were busy touting new stuff in state government Thursday.

Quadriplegic lawyer and author Brian Shaughnessy says the bill’s lack of language allowing for cannabis edibles limits patient’s healthy options.

Hawaii still has a lot of problems when it comes to taking on sex traffickers, but Gov. David Ige wants to rewrite the law to make it better.

UPDATED: Bills on sex trafficking, UH grad student union and renewable fuels production tax credit are among those Hawaii Gov. David Ige currently intends to veto.

The Hawaii governor has until Monday to decide what to put on his intent-to-veto list. Still up in the air: the rail tax extension, sex trafficking and medical marijuana dispensaries.

Honolulu’s mayor told lawmakers he would have to increase property taxes as much as 43 percent to pay for the project, but internal emails show the city could have covered shortfalls with a 5.6 percent bump.

There are occasions when it takes paltry few lawmakers to screw up a really good idea.