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In HNN’s livestream show “Covering the Cost with Annalisa Burgos,” we break down the numbers behind Hawaii’s affordability crisis in candid conversations with financial experts, entrepreneurs and community leaders.

State lawmakers and immigrant advocates gathered Tuesday at the state Capitol Rotunda to mark the signing of six immigrant justice laws and honor the people who have died in immigration detention or enforcement actions under the Trump administratoin.

Hawaiʻi Supreme Court: Unmarried, non-biological women can be legal parents if they raise a child as their own, overturning a male-only rule.

Meanwhile, other states have imposed strict rules for bail enforcement agents.

The CORE program was started in 2021 and has changed its focus repeatedly since then, confounding efforts to gauge its effectiveness.

Supreme Court protects birthright citizenship but allows states to restrict trans athletes, while Hawaii’s protections remain in place.

Justices weigh whether refusing a voluntary roadside test can be used as evidence of guilt

Hawaii officials say they plan to follow state law requiring mail-in voting this year while lawsuits proceed over President Donald Trump’s executive order that critics say would give the federal government unprecedented control over U.S. elections despite the Constitution’s guarantee that Congress and each state hold that authority.

At year’s start, overreach by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) armed agents across the country spurred Hawaii, and many other states, to introduce legislation to try to curb federal excesses. Today, the visible outrage that erupted after Americans Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minnesota has subsided some, but the need remains for sturdy rule-of-law safeguards.