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Ed and Yuriko Justus – plus “Cat Boss” Natalie – are celebrating their milestone with monthly giveaways and an event planned later this year.

Mauna Loa has erupted 34 times since 1843. Each eruption started in Mokuʻāweoweo, and likely the south caldera area.

The Agency on Elderly Affairs will focus on celebrating and honoring older adults who contributed significantly to improving community life.

The Coast Guard is using all available means to determine the Malulani’s location, including urgent marine information broadcasts and harbor checks in California, Hawai‘i and Mexico.

Thousands of humpback whales seasonally use the waters around the Hawaiian Islands as their principal breeding and calving wintering grounds.

The proclamation ceremony included a performance by the Kaʻimi Naʻauao o Hawaiʻi Nei Institute, which performed an original song celebrating native forest birds.

The Department of Health continues to investigate if these recalled products have caused any illnesses in the State.

A federal judge ruled that discharging pollution into the ocean from the Kīkīaola Harbor Drain violates the Clean Water Act and must be regulated under a permitting program.

By collecting and moving the eggs from the Kaua‘i missile range facility, the number of birds on the installation is reduced while the overall population is not harmed.

Workers did receive a 4.6% pay raise in 2023 and a 5.2% raise in 2024. Nonetheless, federal employee pay increases have failed to keep pace with rising labor and living costs.

According to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, it is not possible to say with certainty if this activity will lead to an eruption.

The nine-bill package is aimed at addressing several critical issues throughout the state, including affordable housing, homelessness, mental health licensure, electric vehicles and more.

The flavor fluency, scrumptious skill set and culinary creativity the Big Island’s Tasi Savage has nourished through the years at home now are being showcased in a much larger kitchen in front of a nationwide audience as she competes during the 12th season of the competition series.

The lawsuit was brought by retired government employees who sought to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in claims relating to retiree health benefits provided by the Hawai‘i Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

The Working Families Legislative Caucus is championing a bill package that includes measures to establish paid sick and family leave programs, strengthen access to the supplemental nutritional assistance program, tax capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income and create a state child tax credit.

Based on numerous scientific journals and publications provided to the Health Department and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, the state concluded that the use of the noble variety of ‘awa root, mixed with water or coconut water, is safe and consistent with the substance and intent of federal regulations.

The Kaua‘i County Council wants its island communities to tell them what needs to be addressed in the coming fiscal year.

The Feb. 2 hearing will be the first hearing on a Senate Bill about short-term vacation rentals following the Governor’s State of the State Address and the December 2023 federal court ruling in Hawaiʻi Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance v. City and County of Honolulu.

The public is advised to stay out of flood waters and storm water runoff due to possible overflowing cesspools, sewer, manholes, pesticides, animal fecal matter, dead animals, pathogens, chemicals and associated flood debris.

Since opening the exhibit Wednesday, at least 11,000 people have come to see The Wall That Heals, a replica of the Vietnam War Memorial that was dedicated in 1982 in Washington D.C.