First cohort graduates from University of Hawai‘i medical school’s Kaua‘i Medical Training Track

39-year-old Lance Harris James Volpa, was last seen at 6:25 p.m. on Monday, June 29 in Kamuela, according to the Hawaiʻi Police Department.

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez helped to secure 53 million eggs and $3.3 million for consumers in a settlement.

The breakwater sustained wave-related damage that is now impacting the use of the harbor; a design for repairs includes replacement of the breakwater core and installation of a new concrete crest cap and are intended to reduce wave energy in the harbor and improve navigation.

Hawaiʻi farmers, value‑added producers, food manufacturers, entrepreneurs, supply‑chain partners and resource providers come together in Waikīkī for full day focused on local food product development and strengthening Hawaiʻi’s growing food innovation ecosystem.

Act 238 (2025), takes effect on July 1, 2026 requiring retail establishments selling raw processed ahi products to have country-of-origin labeling.  "Local tuna fisheries and associated seafood markets are an important sector of the State’s economy and food production, and identification of foreign imported tuna is critical to inform and safeguard consumers," according to the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation is starting preliminary environmental studies for a northern portion of the Lahaina Bypass. The proposed Lahaina Bypass Phase 1C will extend the existing Lahaina Bypass northward, spanning 4.5 miles between Keawe Street and Puʻukoliʻi Road. The bypass currently runs from the south, from an area called “Cut Mountain,” to Keawe Street.

Hunt Capital Partners celebrated the reopening of Kaiāulu o Kupuohi, an 89-unit affordable housing community in Lahaina that was destroyed in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.

Moderate to locally breezy trade winds will continue through the weekend. Bands of low clouds and showers will be carried in on the trades, focused...