Hawai‘i News

The new Hawaiʻi hunting season runs July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 and beginning June 15, hunters can obtain licenses and stamps.

The Visitor Satisfaction and Activity Survey found that at least 95% of visitors from each major market area – U.S. West, U.S. East, Canada, Japan, Oceania, Korea, and China – rated Hawai‘i as “excellent” or “above average” when it comes to being safe and secure.

Mazie Hirono and Cory Booker’s act has companion legislation introduced by Representatives Barbara Lee and Pramila Jayapal.

Thirteen new deputies were added to the Sheriff Division and will be assigned to positions across the state.

A tourist following GPS in Kailua-Kona did the same thing as another tourist one month earlier: driving down the same ramp directly into the water at Honōkohau Small Boat Harbor.

The Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement’s presence has ended at Kaimana Beach.

The Pop-Up Mākeke will be located at the Westgate Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, the site of the convention. It is free to the public.

AARP Hawai‘i is hosting a free hurricane-preparedness webinar hosted by author Dennis Hwang.

Participants in the Summer Reaching Challenge can reap rewards including entires for the Grand Prize drawing provided by Alaska Airlines.

Net proceeds from this annual event, presented by Alaska Airlines, will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.

The Hawaiʻi Food & WIne Festival was co-founded by James Beard Award-winning chefs Roy Yamaguchi and Alan Wong.

The Daniel K. Inouye solar telescope images feature a variety of sunspots and quiet regions of the Sun obtained by the Visible-Broadband Imager, one of the telescope’s first-generation instruments.

Some Hawaiian stories, including the one about the two chiefs of Kahuku who became the two hills of Nāpuʻuapele, can be traced to the eruptions they record.

American Savings Bank’s investment comes at a time when the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, under the leadership of new director Kali Watson, plans to spend $600 million in state funds for housing.

The 2023 Central Pacific hurricane season starts June 1, and this year forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict a 50% chance of above-normal tropical cyclone activity.

“Henrietta Lacks left a legacy that has impacted research in Hawaiʻi and throughout the world,” said Brenda Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center researcher.

Dozens of illegal wildlife items were confiscated from the Antique Freak shop in Wailuku on Maui during a Tuesday raid by the State of Hawai’i and NOAA Office of Law Enforcement.

Pualani, a Hawaiian monk seal pup who was born in mid-April on Kaimana Beach in Waikīkī, will be relocated after she is weaned from her mama Kaʻiwi.

The contracts are for destination stewardship, visitor education and brand management throughout North America.

The Public Access Room provides the public with information, facilities, and services to assist them as they participate in the State legislative process.