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On Friday, Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green signed a $37.3 billion biennium state operating budget for fiscal years 24 and 25 and a bill that extends family tax credits for five years.

A remarkable discovery of a planet’s survival after what should have been certain demise at the hands of its sun was made by astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.

Ten minutes after the 2022 eruption began on Mauna Loa, lava poured out over the floor of the summit caldera and destroyed the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s gas measuring station.

Between April 2023 and May 2023, the City and County of Honolulu discharged effluent from the wastewater treatment plant in exceedance of daily National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit limits for enterococci on 13 occasions, including exceeding the monthly permit limit for the month of April.

University of Hawai’i President David Lassner called the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions “beyond disappointing.”

Grantees will implement quick-action projects that help communities become more livable by improving public places; transportation; housing; digital connections; diversity, equity and inclusion; and more, with an emphasis on the needs of adults age 50 and older.

UH’s flagship campus ranked No. 66 among U.S. institutions (out of nearly 4,000 colleges and universities in the country) and No. 386 in the world (out of more than 25,000 worldwide colleges and universities), according to the Quacquarelli Symonds rankings released June 27.

The top three spellers from each of the preliminary competitions will be eligible to compete in the Kiwanis Kupuna Spelling Bee Finals Competition on July 29, 2023, at 1 p.m. at Lanakila Multipurpose Center, Honolulu.

Since 2010, HTA has provided nearly $13.3 million to support 370 programs that preserve Hawai‘i’s natural resources and more than $12.5 million to support nearly 360 community organizations and programs that focus on perpetuating Hawaiian culture.

Karen Tan, president and CEO of Child and Family Service is stepping down after 18 years with the organization to move to Texas to support her family. Her last day is Aug. 31.

A staff astronomer at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea was part of a team of international scientists that captured first time images of starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes from less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

Last week, two Special Olympics Hawaii athletes, Teresa “Tess” Moore and Virginia “Kalei” Lee, represented Hawaii as part of Special Olympics USA at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin, Germany.

Fish Pono–Save Our Reefs is a new organization of ocean-lovers, scientists, fishers and watermen and women that has a vision of bringing awareness to the importance of replenishing herbivore fish populations to foster healthy coral  reefs. 

Senate Armed Services Committee approval is the first step in the process to establish defense funding levels and set policies for the Department of Defense.

Financial educators and counselors from Hawaii State FCU will lead attendees through interactive activities while sharing financial wellness tips.

Eleven organizations co-signed a letter to Gov. Josh Green; mayors Kawakami, Blangiardi, Bissen and Roth; State Board of Education Superintendent Keith Hayashi; and University of Hawai‘i President David Lassner.

The legislation would also protect health care providers in pro-choice states, like Hawai‘i, from prosecution and lawsuits for serving individuals traveling from other states.

The first wave of 16 sailboats are crossing the starting line in the vicinity of Point Fermin in San Pedro on Tuesday to start the 2023 Transpac competition from California to Oʻahu.

The new funding from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program will be used to help build and improve broadband infrastructure across Hawai‘i.

During the 40 years it has been a natural area reserve, Ka‘ena Point has been restored to one of the last wild places on an otherwise mostly urbanized O‘ahu.