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HONOLULU – Governor Josh Green, M.D., has issued a proclamation declaring October Infant Safe Sleep Month, in conjunction with the national observance of Safe Sleep and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ...
Read More DOH News Release – October is Infant Safe Sleep Month

HONOLULU – Maui small businesses hit by this summer’s wildfires are getting financial support to participate in this year’s Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival on November 3 and ...
Read More DBEDT NEWS RELEASE: Funds Provided to Made in Maui County Festival Exhibitors

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi – The National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL) is proud to announce Representative Rachele F. Lamosao (D-36 Waipahū) as a 2023 Elected Women of Excellence Award winner. This ...
Read More Hawai‘i House of Representatives NEWS RELEASE: Rep. Rachele Lamosao Receives Recognition from National Women’s Organization

HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) announced today that preliminary, unvalidated data from ash sampling it received late Friday night shows very high levels of arsenic in wildfire ...
Read More DOH News Release – Preliminary Kula ash samples show elevated levels of toxic substances

HONOLULU — The Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are one step closer to protecting forest birds from mosquito-borne diseases in ...
Read More DLNR/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Joint Release-WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AGENCIES (STATE & FEDERAL) ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO PROTECTING FOREST BIRDS FROM MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES ON KAUA’I

HONOLULU – Governor Josh Green, M.D., today announced that the Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services (DHS), and its partner Maui Economic Opportunity Inc. (MEO), will accept applications beginning Friday, October ...
Read More FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Green Announces Application Date for Maui Relief TANF Program

LAHAINA, Hawaiʻi – Governor Josh Green, M.D., announces another step toward recovery from the devastating Lahaina wildfires with the completion of an emergency access route prior to the reopening of ...
Read More Office of the Governor – News Release – Lahaina School Evacuation Route Ready for Emergency Use

HONOLULU, HI  ̶  The Hawai‘i Office of Homeland Security (OHS) is actively monitoring the developing situation in Israel and any local impacts from recent statements made by Hamas.  “I want ...
Read More DoD MEDIA RELEASE: Hawai‘i Office of Homeland Security response to Hamas threat

HONOLULU – The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) has selected Kenneth Luke, MD as the new administrator of the Hawai‘i State Hospital. Dr. Luke begins his appointment on Monday, October ...
Read More News Release – Hawai‘i Department of Health appoints Kenneth Luke as administrator of Hawai‘i State Hospital