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It would have created a network of locations where teens or young adults could receive services.

Punchbowl Street has seen a lot of activity in recent days, both inside and outside the Hawaii Capitol building.

UPDATED: Gov. David Ige pushes a plan to preserve 635.3 acres on the North Shore. The Hawaii Legislature would have to sign off on the financing before the session ends.

The measure would replace the charge of “promoting prostitution” with the term “sex trafficking.”

The senator has been under fire from critics who say he doesn’t live in his Kakaako district and wrongly claimed tax exemptions.

The gap is wide between House and Senate versions of a bill to give patients a legal way to buy marijuana, and only two days left to compromise.

An attempt to ban construction of new cesspools has already died, but another bill would give homeowners up to $10,000 to upgrade to other sewage systems.

With the legislative session drawing to a close next week, Sen. Will Espero delivered a poem summing it all up.

State lawmakers can’t agree on how best to help the city shore up a $910 million shortfall using General Excise Tax dollars, and they only have until Friday to figure it out.

Sen. Rosalyn Baker reinserted a 36 percent annual percentage rate cap in a bill to crack down on predatory lending.