It was the “worst-of-all-worlds election system,” I was told by Jenny Lee, deputy director of the Coalition of Communities of Color in Portland and former public policy director of the Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice.

State Rep. Della Au Bellati announced that she plans to run against U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, who currently holds Hawaii’s 1st congressional district seat.

Alleged campaign finance violations by a real estate developer were argued once again in front of a circuit court judge on Wednesday afternoon.

U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda met with the Tribune-Herald on Wednesday during a visit to Hilo, where she discussed the potential for a federal government shutdown, ongoing attacks on Congress, the fight to preserve health care funding and efforts by states to shift the balance of power ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.