In the wake of the Florida shooting, a lot of people are talking about school safety.

A lawmaker wants to put safeguards on campuses so students are less vulnerable should a school shooting ever happen here.

Senator Mike Gabbard has drafted a bill after a Campbell High School teacher reached out to him earlier this year.

“We just didn’t have to deal with these kinds of things. We live in a different age now,” Gabbard said. “Her concern was what can we do to protect our keiki, and we had an exchange and started coming up with ideas and had the bill drawn up.”

For a second year in a row, lawmakers have blocked the DOT's request to increase taxes for Hawaii drivers, even though the tax hikes were backed by Gov. David Ige.

Now the DOT said major road projects may have to be put on hold.

The proposal would have increased the state fuel tax from 16 cents to 26 cents per gallon, bumped up annual registration fees from $45 to $50 and raise the motor vehicle weight tax by a quarter of a cent.

Mokulele Airlines said it grounded its Kalaeloa service earlier this month after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past two years.

It's a major inconvenience for people on the Leeward side who will now have to travel to Honolulu International Airport to catch an interisland flight.

It's also a setback for the state which has struggled for more than a decade to turn the former military air base into a commercial airport.