MATTHEW THAYER / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER / AUG. 8 Gov. Josh Green speaks during Kuhinia Maui Midday Gathering at the Maui County Building in Wailuku. Green announced today that he will provide ...

The state Elections Commission has asked the Legislature to revert to in-person, same-day voting. But experts say voting by mail is safe and popular.

TAOS, New Mexico — New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the ...

Again, during an unannounced visit in 2024, state inspectors found no fire drill documentation present for November 2023 or December 2023. A written plan of corrective action, signed in January 2025, ...

The board of the state’s Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp. in July approved spending $500, 000 appropriated by the Legislature in 2024 on ... to date after litigation with the city over ...

Democrats hold a 6-5 edge over Republicans in Virginia’s U.S. House delegation. A new map could allow them to expand that ...

Tasha Kama, a Maui County Council member and retired church pastor who advocated for Hawaiian homestead beneficiaries and ...

The Hawaiʻi Agribusiness Development Corporation, Board of Directors held its first-ever meeting on the island of Maui this ...

DTRIC Insurance Co., one of Hawaii's local carriers, last week announced its impending exit from the market, citing rising insurance costs. Those at the state Capitol who are most familiar with the ...

Although the positions have the same name, the job of a state attorney general in Virginia is not analogous to the attorney general of the United States. Here’s what the job’s really ...

Major fire mitigation projects have been completed throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, but many insurers don’t know about ...

For veteran observers of Hawaii’s political scene, new political alliances and strategy shifts that have emerged to tackle the state’s affordable-housing crisis may seem unlikely and unnatural. Social ...