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Seven forestry projects have been selected by Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry, a program of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW), to receive funds to strengthen community connections with trees. Funding from Kaulunani will support these projects on Kauaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island over the next three years.

While Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have worked well together responding to volcanic unrest and eruptions for decades, the new interagency plan puts their practices down on paper.

Three questions in the survey asked about Coco Palms, but only the responses to the final question were included in the published public opinion report. 

On Kaua‘i, conservationists are flying a helicopter to spread a harmless bacterium in native forests inhabited by near-extinct honeycreepers, like the ‘akikiki.

Kaua‘i competitors registered as Corey Medeiros and Alexei Daunis now hold the lead for longest tilapia and third-longest roi, respectively.

Tropical moisture from the two former tropical cyclones is causing dew points to spike into the mid to upper 70s, making it steamy, sticky and stifling around the island.

The siren test will be coordinated with a test of the Live Audio Broadcast segment of the Emergency Alert System.

The circumnavigation of the Pacific aims to begin a movement of “planetary navigators” who will work to ensure a better future for Earth.

Researchers assessed the age of critically endangered, free-ranging dolphins in Greece.

Residents must continue to carry their physical cards.

“If you don’t deal seriously with climate change … If we don’t have some kind of ability to deal with the impact of climate, we’re gonna see this again,” Green said of the 2023 wildfires on Maui.

Because the Waimea and Kapa‘a swimming pools are closed on Mondays, staff will observe the holiday on Sept. 3.

The Materials Research and Education Consortium will focus on challenges including reliance on costly imported fuels, resource and waste management, mitigation of the effects of soil erosion and ocean contamination.

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Hawai‘i residents. On average, almost 4 people die from suicide every week. A total of 1,050 island residents died because of suicide from 2019 to 2023.

The highly interactive workshop will focus on a chronic disease self-management program.

The Eha Street water service shutdown was initially scheduled for Aug. 28 to conduct new fire line and service lateral work.

This is the first rural health report targeted specifically for Hawaiʻi that measures data at the individual level.

Every market vendor will donate a portion of their proceeds to the Kaua‘i Humane Society.

The Kaua‘i Police Department has identified the missing person as 50-year-old Gary Gushiken.

The sunset summit proposal was recorded by the unmanned observatory’s front door camera at about 6:30 p.m. Aug. 13. The whole engagement event took about a minute or so, and Laychek said at the end of the time lapse, the future groom stood up, the couple hugged and then kissed.