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

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

Tourists — and local residents — who book hotel rooms and cruise ship cabins will begin providing $90 million to $100 million ...

The last patient of the New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in Āliamanu being treated at the Straub Benioff Medical Center in ...

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

For years, law enforcement agencies said the law held them back from effective fireworks prosecutions. A reform measure ...

The Straub Benioff team said Charmaine Benigno had the most complex, severe burns that covered more than 80 percent of her ...

Hawaii Explosives and Pyrotechnics. One surviving bill makes it a Class A felony if anyone suffers substantial injury or death from fireworks, and a Class B felony for serious injury. That same ...

Hawaii lawmakers passed the budget for the next two years and began voting on more than 200 bills as the legislative session ...

He introduced Senate Bill 222, which provides stiffer penalties for illegal fireworks offenders. It also provides additional funding for the Illegal Fireworks Task Force. “I am very grateful and ...

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 ...