Former Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, a Hawaii Democrat who made history as the first woman president of the Hawaii state Senate ...

Hanabusa was first elected to the Hawaiʻi Senate in 1998 and served in the upper chamber through 2010, including a stint as the first woman Senate president. She went on to win one of Hawaiʻi's two ...

Former U.S. Representative and Hawaiʻi Senate President Colleen Hanabusa has died at the age of 74. Governor Josh Green ...

Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who was the first woman to serve as president of the Hawaii State Senate, has died. She ...

Colleen Hanabusa, who represented Hawaiʻi in the U.S. House of Representatives, died Thursday after a private battle with cancer. She was 74. Hanabusa, a Democrat, served twice in the House, from 2011 ...

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Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, a dominant force in Hawaii politics for decades and a key player in the state’s rail saga, has died after a private battle with cancer. She was 74. Hanabusa is ...

Former U.S. Representative and Hawaiʻi Senate President Colleen Hanabusa died March 5. She was 74. According to a report from Hawai‘i News Now, the former lawmaker succumbed after a private battle ...

Long-time friend Donalyn Dela Cruz said Hanabusa’s legacy is her courageous leadership. “She was a tita. She was the tita from Wai’anae, and she made no qualms about it, but extremely sharp,” Dela ...

Memories and messages are pouring in following the passing of former Hawaii congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa.

After Colleen Wakako Hanabusa passed away early Friday morning at age 74, she was immediately remembered as a tough, passionate, brilliant attorney and legislator who broke barriers and thrived in the ...

Colleen Hanabusa, a formidable Hawaii politician and prominent labor lawyer from Waianae who served in Congress but failed to become Hawaii’s governor and Honolulu’s mayor, died early Friday morning ...