Responses to the resignation of the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Also: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is daring conservatives to sink his budget resolution, setting up a make-or-break moment in the House Budget Committee later today.

Extending the excise surcharge to 2045 could raise another $5 billion or more for the Skyline project, taking it to Ala Moana ...

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i.

The Port’s three aging gantry cranes were at work unloading thousands of tons of products off the Aloha Class Matson containership Daniel K. Inouye on ... chairman Sen. Jesse Lujan and Sen.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health doesn’t keep statistics on bedbugs because they don’t carry or spread disease. But the ...

Being a blue state in a GOP-dominated national power structure makes this the perfect time to become more autonomous.

US Senator Brian Schatz has said he would place a blanket hold on the confirmation vote for President Donald Trump's nominees ...

makes it impossible for us to move forward.” By Clarissa-Jan Lim Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat, confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his insistence on falsely linking vaccines ...

Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says he is "struggling" with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. At the end of Kennedy's ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...