House and Senate leadership have little to say about the subject of a federal bribery investigation giving one of their 2022 colleagues $35,000.

A gambling bill is cruising through the Legislature, leaving a lot of questions in its wake.

Three years after the handoff, the identities of an unnamed man and the lawmaker he paid remain unknown to the public.

For the third year in a row, the Hawaiʻi Youth Correctional Facility’s kitchen is understaffed, so it is turning to plate lunches for emergency meals.

Ke namunamu nei naʻe nā kānaka noho ʻāina hoʻokūʻonoʻono, pilikia ʻē lākou i ka nui o ko Hilo ʻōpala, ke kaekene, ka hana ʻaila me ke kahua hoʻolulu mokulele. 

One address on shipping documents in a seizure at Honolulu Harbor is the first in a chain of clues that lead across the country and through the decades — a mysterious web of connections between the legal and illegal fireworks trade.

As the Legislature reaches the halfway mark, the House killed a bill to remove vaccine exemptions for schoolchildren while the Senate approved creating an illegal fireworks enforcement division.

Proponents say the bill would result in millions of dollars in tax revenue for Hawaiʻi but some lawmakers fear it would create financial and social issues for gambling addicts.

Utilities and infrastructure are expected to add millions more but stadium developers would be expected to pay for those costs.