The Hawaiʻi State Senate today announced its 2021 leadership and committee assignments ahead of the Thirty-First Legislature that opens on Jan. 20, 2021.

In the Hawai‘i State Legislature, HLTA endorsed incumbents Gil Keith-Agaran, Justin Woodson, and Lynn DeCoite to retain their seats, citing their support of the tourism industry on the Valley Isle.

A total of $532.94 million in Capital Improvement Project funds and General Obligation Bonds has been set aside for a wide assortment of projects in Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 for their respective districts in the County of Maui.

The new fleet represents the latest in "green" fuel-reduction tug technology that will generate less pollution than the companyʻs other tug boats. 

State Senators from Maui responded to the announcement that Mahi Pono will purchase former HC&S lands from A&B keeping it in use for diversified agriculture.

Sen. English will serve as Vice Chair of the Technology Committee, and as a member of the Transportation and Ways & Means Committees.

Senate Bill 2571 bans the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in the State of any sunscreen that contains oxybenzone or octinoxate without a prescription...

A rail funding bill narrowly advanced in a 6-5 vote last night in the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Maui Sen. Keith-Agaran was among those who voted in favor

This year’s Maui High School graduating class fielded 30 valedictorians, the school’s highest number of seniors within a single class to earn this distinction.

The Maui County Democratic Party will hold its Annual Convention on Saturday, April 1, at the Maui Waena Intermediate School Cafeteria starting at 1 p.m.

Senator J Kalani English was selected as Majority Leader; Sen. Gil Keith Agaran is the Judiciary and Labor Chair; and Sen. Roz Baker is the Consumer Protection and Health Chair.

A neighbor island town hall meeting will be held on Maui on Tuesday, July 12, focusing on the Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA.

Funding allocation includes: $37.5 million for design and construction for new high school in Kīhei; $770,000 for air conditioning and improvements at Lahainaluna High school; and $1.95 million for improvements at Maui High School.

State Senators from Maui were in unison calling Monday’s announcement confirming federal assistance for displaced Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company workers welcomed news.

The state Department of Health is proposing amendments to current laws, that if passed would prohibit the construction of new cesspools in Hawaiʻi. The proposed changes will be discussed at a meeting on Maui tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015) at 5 p.m. at the Kula Community Center; and on Molokaʻi on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. at the Kaunakakai Gym.