Governor Josh Green, M.D.

(HILO, HAWAI’I ISLAND) – A nēnē family was reunited and relocated last week after an illegal capture and removal of its gosling from Wailoa River State Recreation Area in Hilo. On Thursday, Raymond McGuire of the DLNR Division ...
Read More DLNR News Release-Family of Good Samaritans Singled Out for Recovery of Nene Gosling

(HONOLULU) – Friday, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) unanimously approved the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) to employ landscape-scale mosquito suppression in critical forest bird habitat  to reduce mosquito populations in the dense, wet forests of east ...
Read More DLNR News Release-Endangered Forest Birds to Receive Protection from Avian Malaria

(HILO, HAWAI’I ISLAND) – 57-year-old Meiqin Chen of Hilo was cited this morning by the DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) after removing a nēnē gosling from Wailoa ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE – HILO WOMAN CITED AFTER TAKING NĒNĒ GOSLING FROM STATE PARK

HONOLULU, HAWAIʻI – Two Hawai‘i co-writers from Creative Lab’s Music Immersive February 2023 cohort have landed an original music sync licensing placement in the ABC series “The Company You Keep.” ...
Read More DBEDT NEWS RELEASE: Creative Lab Hawaiʻi Music Immersive (CLHMI) Artists Place Music on ABC’s “The Company You Keep,” Airing This Sunday on ABC

(HONOLULU) – Next month, the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra will host special performances for students weaving together music, art, science, and storytelling. “Symphony of the Hawai‘i Forests” is a collaboration including ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE – “SYMPHONY OF THE HAWAIʻI FORESTS” GROWS STUDENTS’ PILINA WITH TREES

HONOLULU, HI – In observance of “World Tuberculosis Day” on Friday, March 24, 2023, the Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) Tuberculosis (TB) Control Branch would like to encourage Hawai‘i’s at-risk ...
Read More DOH News Release: Department of Health raises awareness on “World Tuberculosis Day”

HONOLULU, HI – Scammers are calling Hawaiʻi residents pretending to be Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”) agents. The callers are lying and telling potential victims that they owe unpaid fines ...
Read More ATTORNEY GENERAL WARNS OF FAKE FBI BITCOIN PHONE SCAM INVOLVING “SPOOFED” DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PHONE NUMBER

HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) today announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February was 3.6 percent, the same as in ...
Read More DBEDT NEWS RELEASE: HAWAI‘I’S FEBRUARY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AT 3.6 PERCENT

HONOLULU, HI – The Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH) Food and Drug Branch is warning residents of a voluntary recall of various Asian sauces distributed in Hawai‘i. Mutual Trading ...
Read More DOH News Release: Asian sauces sold in Hawai‘i recalled due to undeclared soy allergen

HONOLULU, HI – Chemicals known as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) have been detected in water samples collected at the Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) Waipi‘o Heights Wells, Pumps ...
Read More DOH News Release: PFAS detected in Waipi‘o Heights Wells