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(HONOLULU) Just before noon today a person placed a call to 911 reporting a possible shark encounter about 50-yards from shore at Keawakapu Point in South Maui. Currently, first responders ...
Read More DLNR News Release-First Responders and Law Enforcement on Scene of Possible Shark Incident, Dec. 8, 2022

 (HILO) – Less than 24-hours after the current eruption of Mauna Loa began, Steve Bergfeld, the Hawai‘i Island Branch Chief with the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) worried ...
Read More DLNR News Release-Minimal Ecological Impacts Reported from Mauna Loa Eruption

(HILO) – Three men from Kazakhstan were cited on Wednesday after being observed by three different law enforcement agencies, in the closed area of the Mauna Loa Forest Reserve on ...
Read More DLNR News Release-Three Men Cited for Entering Closed Area on Mauna Loa, Dec. 8, 2022

HONOLULU — The Hawaii Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced a three-day series of free, virtual workshops to assist job seekers during this dynamic period in the ...
Read More NEWS RELEASE: DLIR Announces Free Virtual Job H.U.B. Summit

LAHAINA, Hawaii – For the first time in three years, the Hawaii Supreme Court resumed in-person oral arguments at a high school for its Courts in the Community program. “We are ...
Read More Hawaii State Judiciary – Hawaii Supreme Court Holds Oral Argument at Lahainaluna High School

HONOLULU — The culinary class made up of three female inmates at the Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) graduated today from the Kapiolani Community College (KCC) Culinary Arts Program. To ...
Read More PSD NEWS RELEASE – WCCC and Kapiolani Community College holds Culinary Arts Program Graduation Luncheon at women’s prison.

HONOLULU, HI — At the direction of the President of the United States, Gov. Josh B. Green, M.D., has ordered that the United States flag and the Hawaiʻi state flag ...
Read More Office of the Governor – News Release: Gov. Green Issues Flag Order for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

(Kahikinui, Maui) – A project to restore a 4,500-acre portion of native forest on the slopes of Haleakalā that began over 25 years ago has recommenced through the efforts of ...
Read More DHHL Media Release: New Plan Guides Kahikinui Forest Restoration

HONOLULU, HI – Hawai‘i began a new chapter today with the inauguration and swearing-in of Josh Green, M.D., as the ninth Governor of the State of Hawai‘i. Governor Green officially ...
Read More HAWAI‘I BEGINS A NEW CHAPTER WITH INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR JOSH GREEN, M.D.

Honolulu, HI – Governor-elect Josh Green today announced nominees to serve as Director and/or Deputy Director for fourteen state departments in his cabinet. Green said, “I am assembling a cabinet ...
Read More Office of the Governor-elect – News Release – Governor-elect Josh Green Makes Cabinet Selections for Fourteen State Departments