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The 12 athletes match the highest total for the University of Hawaiʻi in any Olympics, as the university also sent 12 athletes to the games in 2000.

Tatiana Weston-Webb represents her birth country of Brazil in the Olympic Games.

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A new study has discovered Native Hawaiians experience higher accelerated biological aging in comparison to White and Japanese American residents.

Volunteer efforts to restore an eroding shoreline in Windward Oʻahu are being observed for a new feasibility commissioned by the Hawaiʻi Climate Change Commission, DLNR, UH Sea Grant, and Oʻahu MPO, in contract with Sea Engineering.

The Surfrider Kauaʻi chapter removed 39,581 pounds of marine debris from beaches around the island, and 10,200 pounds of land-based trash, for a total of 49,788 pounds in 2023.

The two-day event will feature solo and group dance performances, drumming and a fire knife contest.

All projects are weather permitting.

The funding will also help restore Native Hawaiian fishponds, limu, and coral reefs to reinvigorate habitat, and help reduce risk and improve disaster resilience by establishing new green infrastructure projects and building capacity within at-risk communities, among other things.

The observatory’s tower on the edge of the Kīlauea caldera inside Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will be demolished today after work was postponed from Thursday. It is the last remnants of the former observatory and museum complex that was closed after it was damaged beyond repair in 2018 during the 2018 eruption, lava flow and summit eruption of the Big Island volcano.

State crews will be paving an area near the pier.

This funding will be used to support Hawaiʻi’s teacher workforce by creating the first statewide registered apprenticeship program for K-12 teachers. The program will enable approximately 142 aspiring educators to ‘earn and learn’ while obtaining their bachelor’s degrees at no cost, avoiding student loans.

A full closure is necessary for crews to install a 24-inch drain line from the top of Hanalei Hill down the face of the slope.

This is the fifth case diagnosed this year in Hawai‘i and brings the total number of cases reported to the state health department since June 3, 2022, to 51.

The East Kaua‘i Community and Circulation Plan is intended to build on previous community planning efforts from the 2018 Kaua‘i Kākou General Plan with a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of the East Kaua‘i district.

According to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the seismicity and elevated ground deformation rates suggests magma may be slowly moving out of the summit storage region.

Future eruptions are possible with little warning along the upper portions of Kīlauea’s East Rift Zone.

“Together, we must stop this exploitation of people, especially children, that robs them of their freedom, innocence and dignity.”

Access will be provided for residents in the area.

 According to recent data from Kaua’i Deputy Fire Chief Roger Mills, there have been a total of 122 brush fires so far in 2024. That can be compared to 196 brush fires in all of 2023, 262 in 2022, 211 in 2021, and 193 in 2020.