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Honolulu City Council hears lifeguards’ views on Ocean Safety department

May. 03, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

HONOLULU — Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s plan for a new city Department of Ocean Safety has moved forward in the City Council but did not sail smoothly through Honolulu Hale on Wednesday afternoon.

Charity Walk road closures begin at 7 a.m. Saturday

May. 03, 2024

LIHU‘E — A number of road closures will take place ahead of the 2024 Charity Walk on Saturday.

Nonprofits seek help as poverty hits 15 percent in Hawai‘i

May. 02, 2024

Child & Family Service put out a call to action to other nonprofits on Monday to join it in the battle to fight the harmful effects of poverty in Hawai‘i, where an estimated 15 percent of families are living below federal poverty guidelines.

$1 billion pledged for undersea internet cables

May. 02, 2024

What promises to be a significant step in bridging Hawaii’s digital divide — a $1 billion project to build undersea fiber-optic internet cables — was unveiled Tuesday in Honolulu.

New North Shore school getting closer to opening

May. 02, 2024

KILAUEA — Namahana School, a new public charter middle and high school coming up in Kilauea, hosted about 200 people from the community on Sunday at the Porter Pavilion in Anaina Hou Community Park.

A solution for Puna insurance crisis?

May. 02, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

After most of the recently proposed legislative solutions have failed, Puna residents are hoping they can solve their district’s impending housing insurance crisis.

Maui fire compensation fund deadline extended

May. 02, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

Families who lost a loved one in the deadly Aug. 8 Maui wildfires — or victims who suffered serious injuries — now have until May 31 to register for the One ‘Ohana Fund, which offers them financial compensation.

New housing projects give hope to some Maui fire survivors

May. 02, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

HONOLULU — Gov. Josh Green, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen and other officials marked major milestones in providing more transitional housing for survivors of the Aug. 8, 2023, Maui wildfires.

Education bills advancing to full House and Senate

May. 01, 2024

HONOLULU — House and Senate conference committees plan to forward a host of education-related bills this week to the full House and Senate for final approval. That includes a statewide registry, which would document and share all school staff misdeeds, along with other bills to ease qualifications for teacher licenses in Hawai‘i and provide more funding for Hawaiian immersion education.

Median home price leaps to $1.6 million in March on Kaua‘i

May. 01, 2024

LIHU‘E — Home sales and prices climbed for the third straight month, as the Kaua‘i housing market continues to try and shake off a dismal performance in 2023.

Hawai‘i lawmakers reduce financial grants

Apr. 30, 2024 • Updated 6:42 a.m.

HONOLULU — State lawmakers this year dialed back financial grants awarded to private projects and programs with public purposes, but kept the level of giving on par with other recent years.

Flat Golden Week fortells a sluggish Japan tourism recovery in Hawai‘i

Apr. 30, 2024 • Updated 6:41 a.m.

HONOLULU — Golden Week, the traditional peak Japanese travel season, is better this year than last, but it isn’t the gold mine that it once was because Hawai‘i is losing ground to competing destinations during this holiday period and beyond.

Honolulu mayor in D.C. seeking federal funds to fight homelessness

Apr. 30, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

HONOLULU — While in Washington, D.C., this week, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi plans to lobby the Biden administration for more federal funds for vouchers designed to reduce homelessness — and prevent more families from becoming homeless.

Hawai‘i and Vegas chambers connect at business exchange

Apr. 30, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

Struggles to diversify tourism-dependent economies, develop solutions to workforce shortages, address how to make housing more affordable and pursue shared business opportunities took center stage at the Vegas Chamber Hawai‘i Business Exchange Summit.

Ocean Safety Task Force members critical of process

Apr. 30, 2024 • Updated 8:03 p.m.

HONOLULU — Some people who served on Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s Ocean Safety Task Force to help form the new public safety department say they were fed up with the outcome.

Legislation aims to help tourism recover

Apr. 29, 2024

HONOLULU — Hawai‘i’s hotel booking pace is in the red through December, but legislative funding has allowed the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority to support a new multimillion-dollar marketing campaign aimed at U.S. visitors.

Missing documents muddle wildfire probe

Apr. 29, 2024

Missing Maui Emergency Management Agency documents make it “difficult to make a complete and accurate accounting” of activities inside the Emergency Operations Center on Aug. 8, when fires killed 101 people, burned 6,721 acres and left 8,000 people homeless, according to the state attorney general.

New round of debt forgiveness begins for Hawai‘i health care professionals

Apr. 29, 2024

HONOLULU —Dr. Genia Taitano, a surgeon at Kona’s Alii Health Center and trauma medical director at Kona Community Hospital, continues to pay down over $350,000 in student loans, but the remaining debt will soon be wiped out in the state’s effort to keep her and other health care workers in Hawai‘i.

Draft EIS: PTA lease extension could have adverse impact

Apr. 29, 2024

HILO, Hawai‘i — A draft environmental impact statement released earlier this month about the Army’s proposal to renew its lease on up to 22,750 acres of state land at Pohakuloa Training Area indicated that granting the extension could have an adverse impact on Hawaiian cultural practices and environmental justice.

Light at the end of the tunnel for Hakalau Beach Park

Apr. 29, 2024

HILO, Hawai‘i — The long-closed Hakalau Beach Park will reopen more than a decade after being shut to the public, according to a state Department of Transportation document.

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