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Arborists, volunteering their time and expertise to saving the 150-year-old tree, indicate the growth is a positive sign for its long-term recovery.

Santos was located on Sept. 17, at approximately 10:20 p.m., driving a vehicle in the vicinity of the Kekaha Beach Park approximately one-quarter mile west of the Akialoa Road and Kaumuali‘i Highway Junction.

Grow Our Own stipends are available for students who have been admitted into the College of Education’s bachelor in elementary education and Hawaiian language immersion and master of education in teaching programs for fall 2023, and for students who are applying to the post-baccalaureate certificate in elementary education and post-baccalaureate certificate in secondary education programs for spring 2024.

The two latest victims to be officially identified are 68-year-old Michael Gordon and 60-year-old Carole Hartley, both of Lāhainā. A total of 67 victims have now been named.

This stop is part of the Moananuiākea Voyage, a circumnavigation of the Pacific that will cover an estimated 43,000 nautical miles, 36 countries and archipelagoes, nearly 100 indigenous territories and more than 300 ports.

The new 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines replace the previously approved and authorized bivalent mRNA vaccines. The new vaccines address the XBB-lineages of the Omicron variant that accounts for 99% of COVID-19 cases in Hawai‘i.

Eruptive activity is confined to the downdropped block and Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Kīlauea’s summit caldera at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

Launched and managed by the University of Hawai‘i Office of Innovation and Commercialization, Patents2Products is a new and unique program to develop the next generation of technology innovators from within the University of Hawai‘i’s ranks of PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.

Kauaʻi’s KONG FM93.5 (KQNG), Shaka FM103.1 (KSHK), HI95 Kauaʻi FM95.9 (KSRF), KUAI Country FM104.5/AM570 (KUAI), Kauaʻi FM97 FM96.9 (KFMN) are hosting the radiothon today and Tuesday from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A new $30 million loan repayment program was unveiled on Saturday to address the growing shortages of physicians and other healthcare professionals across the Hawaiian islands.

Governor Josh Green today announced the reopening of West Maui on Oct. 8, as the state tries to balance economic survival, and the need for people to have jobs to help their families as they rebuild and recover.

When National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration divers first detected the alga in 2016, it grew in lower abundances and was not yet widespread. By August 2019, the algae had grown into abundant mats of over 100,000 square feet each at Manawai (Pearl and Hermes Atoll), outcompeting the species typically living in these ecosystems.

The new study, led by Yoo-Geun Ham from Chonnam National University and Seung-Ki Min from Pohang University of Science and Technology, used a deep learning approach to do what machine learning is most adept at doing: process extensive amounts of data and reveal patterns that are difficult for human analysts to decipher.

The entity has been given the name Hoʻoleilana, a term drawn from the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant evoking the origin of structure.

The report examines the most challenging issues through a variety of lenses, including housing and urban economics, regional economic development, environmental economics, labor economics, public health, public finance and governance.

The students, part of Kauaʻi Medical Training Track program, kicked off their first year Aug. 18 during an event at The Plantation House by Gaylords.

It’s still way too early to tell if it could have any impacts on the Hawaiian Islands.

Kīlauea is not erupting, but increased seismic activity continues in an area south of the caldera.

A total of 50 people who died in the deadliest wildfire in the past century in the United States have now been officially named. Updated validated FBI list of missing at 385.

After raising over $1 million for Maui relief, Maui Ola will return with a series of benefit concerts- donating all proceeds to those impacted by Mauiʻs devastating wildfires.