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Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs revamps website
The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, or DCCA, launched its newly redesigned website pages, aimed at providing visitors with a seamless and intuitive browsing experience. The revamped homepage, coupled with a new complaint management webpage is meant to enhance user accessibility and engagement. The updated homepage features a streamlined, function-driven layout and improved navigation […]
Department of Hawaiian Homelands lessees face telecommunication disruption
The private company required to provide reliable telecommunication services is facing foreclosure due to nonpayment of a major loan.
Flags ordered to half-staff for Memorial Day
This action is taken to honor the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
Hawaiʻi Attorney General joins coalition to defend EPA’s greenhouse gas emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles
The EPA’s final rule will reduce 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and result in $10 billion annual climate benefits, $300 million in annual non-greenhouse gas public health benefits, and $3.5 billion in annual operational savings for the trucking industry over the lifetime of these vehicles, according to rule backers. Currently, the EPA’s final rule is being challenged by 25 other states, which seek to stop emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles from taking effect.
Kaua‘i Police Department encourages safe celebrations as graduation nears
Officers are stepping up enforcement measures and will be conducting checks for drivers committing traffic violations.
Disaster loans available to Kaua‘i residents, business owners following April storm
Homeowners and renters on Kaua‘i may be eligible for disaster loans of up to $100,000 to repair or replace personal property damaged or lost in the storms, including vehicles.
Kaua‘i District Health Office to assess emergency preparedness among residents
Survey teams will go door-to-door June 3-7 in 30 randomly selected census blocks.
Kīlauea School students spent school year learning from the land at Kāhili Beach
Thirty-five sixth-graders traveled to the North Shore beach on a monthly basis to learn from ‘āina-based educator Kapule Torio and other experts.
State awarded more than $900M against pharmaceutical companies that failed to disclose efficacy for a blood thinner drug
Companies involved in the payout include Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi.
Drivers in Hawai‘i can soon get ‘shaka plates’
The Shaka License Plate Program is the culmination of a two-year statewide review process, according to Project Shaka.
Winners announced from 4th annual MWR Auto Skills Car Show
About 600 people turned out May 11 at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands in Kekaha for the open base event that featured 70 custom vehicles.
U.S. Pacific Fleet to hold maritime exercise this summer
RIMPAC is the worldʻs largest international maritime exercise, which has been held biannually in summer months since 1971.
Slightly soggier than expected 2023-24 wet season will buffer Hawai‘i from earlier onset of drought, wildfire season
Shift from El Nino to La Nina conditions also means there likely will be fewer tropical cyclones, including tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes, will move through the Central Pacific during the 2024 hurricane season.
Hawaiian Host chocolate owners award four Kauaʻi students academic scholarships
Mamoru and Aiko Takitani own Hawaiian Host chocolates. The foundation reports awarding more than $13.5 million in scholarship and academic enrichment programs to students in Hawaiʻi over the years, including $219,000 in scholarships this year.
2024 Central Pacific hurricane season outlook predicts 1 to 4 tropical cyclones
May 19-25 is also Hurricane Preparedness Week in Hawai’i and officials urge everyone in the state to take action now, before a tropical cyclone looms, to make sure they, their loved ones and neighbors have what they need to weather a storm.
Poʻipū resort Kukuiʻula on Kaua‘i names new sous chef, philanthropy manager
Shelly Gerardo serves on the board of directors for Kaua‘i United Way; Allan Duldulao is known as a championship-winning soccer coach.
Unusual late season Kona low mostly fizzles on neighbor islands, drenches O‘ahu
Last week’s storm appears to be the latest kona low to directly affect the main Hawaiian Islands in at least the past 20 years.
Hawai‘i drivers can get ‘shaka plates’ beginning Thursday; fees benefit nonprofit
The Shaka License Plate Program is the culmination of a two-year statewide review process, according to Project Shaka.
First-ever Hawaiʻi delegation advocates for agricultural support at the USDA
The delegation included state legislators, Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau, Hawai‘i Cattlemen’s Council, Hawai‘i Crop Improvement Association, Hawai‘i Floriculture and Nursery Association, and Synergistic Hawai‘i Agricultural Council, farmers, ranchers and advocates.
Zuckerberg settles lawsuit following 2019 death of security guard
The complaint, first filed in August 2021, accuses Zuckerberg’s LLC and his property’s head of security, Hank Barriga, of wrongful death, negligence, infliction of severe emotional distress, and punitive damages due to 70-year-old security guard Rodney Medeiros dying after being told to climb a muddy trail in rainy weather following his shift on Aug. 4, 2019.