The year-old state Department of Law Enforcement would get new funding and an increased mandate to crack down on illegal ...

The biggest thing that hurts public trust is, ‘How can it be this bad,’ Right? ‘How is it possible? Who is involved?’ And ...

Federal agents find hundreds of pounds of illegal fireworks every year in mail headed for Hawaiʻi addresses, and packages are regularly seized and destroyed. Yet the senders of those packages, and the ...

Deputy Attorney General Tricia Nakamatsu joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss key bills passed this ...

Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort is returning the Friday night fireworks to its normal start time of 7:45 p.m.

Bruce Albrecht, director of operations at Hawaii Explosives & Pyrotechnics, Inc., spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz ...

Hawaii legislators are poised to take their final votes Wednesday on more than 200 bills, including measures that would fund ...

Hawaii lawmakers have bolstered the state fireworks provisions with a handful of successful bills, and not a moment too soon.

He said he has zero tolerance for any officer or firefighter involved in — or who tolerates — Hawaii’s illegal, multimillion- dollar fireworks trade. “To me it’s offensive to be a first ...