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HONOLULU – Laumaka work furlough inmate Milton Kapule fled from the furlough housing after staff summoned him at about 10 a.m. State Sheriffs and the Honolulu Police Department were notified. Sheriffs from ...
Read More PSD NEWS RELEASE – Sheriffs searching for missing Laumaka Work Furlough Inmate Milton Kapule.

(SAND ISLAND STATE RECREATION AREA, OʻAHU) – Saturday morning, more than four dozen people helped the DLNR Division of State Parks (DSP) conduct an Earth Day cleanup. Volunteers showed up ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE – EARTH DAY VOLUNTEERS HELP CLEANUP OʻAHU STATE PARK

 (WAIKĪKĪ, O‘AHU) – Mother monk seal, Kaiwi, and her pup spent an hour and forty minutes in the water off Kaimana Beach this morning. This is the third day, since ...
Read More DLNR News Release-DOCARE Begins Around-the-Clock Presence for Monk Seals at Kaimana Beach

HILO – The Department of Public Safety (PSD) can confirm that missing Hawai`i Community Correctional Center (HCCC) inmate Dyllan Paulo-Leslie was captured through a joint law enforcement effort by State Sheriffs ...
Read More PSD NEWS RELEASE – Missing HCCC inmate captured in joint law enforcement effort.

HONOLULU – The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) and the state Boards and Commissions released a summary of disciplinary actions through the month of March 2023, taken ...
Read More RELEASE: DCCA DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS (THROUGH MARCH 2023)

  HONOLULU, HI – The Emergency Medical Services Injury Prevention System Branch (EMSIPSB) of the Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) announces a new medication dosing system for county Emergency Medical ...
Read More News Release – Hawai‘i Department of Health deploys new medication dosing system statewide to enhance pediatric emergency care

HONOLULU, HI – Attorney General Anne Lopez today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an important case to preserve states’ authority to bar individuals subject to domestic violence restraining ...
Read More 2023-20 ATTORNEY GENERAL LOPEZ URGES U.S. SUPREME COURT TO PROTECT VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE FROM GUN VIOLENCE

HONOLULU, HI – The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) supports the latest recommendations announced yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), allowing an additional dose of the ...
Read More DOH News Release: Seniors now eligible for additional COVID-19 bivalent booster dose, COVID vaccine recommendations simplified

HILO – One pre-trial detainee escaped from the Hawaii Community Correctional Center (HCCC) this evening. Preliminary reports indicate 27-year old Dyllan Paulo-Leslie escaped from inmate housing, scaled the razor wire fence on ...
Read More PSD NEWS RELEASE – Sheriffs and Hawaii PD searching for missing HCCC inmate.

  HONOLULU, HI – The U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaiʻi dismissed a federal constitutional challenge to COVID-19 emergency proclamations (EPs) issued by former Governor David Ige.   ...
Read More 2023-19 DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PREVAILS IN FEDERAL CHALLENGE TO COVID-19 EMERGENCY PROCLAMATIONS