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Companies involved in the payout include Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

The Shaka License Plate Program is the culmination of a two-year statewide review process, according to Project Shaka.

About 600 people turned out May 11 at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands in Kekaha for the open base event that featured 70 custom vehicles.

RIMPAC is the worldʻs largest international maritime exercise, which has been held biannually in summer months since 1971.

Shift from El Nino to La Nina conditions also means there likely will be fewer tropical cyclones, including tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes, will move through the Central Pacific during the 2024 hurricane season.

Mamoru and Aiko Takitani own Hawaiian Host chocolates. The foundation reports awarding more than $13.5 million in scholarship and academic enrichment programs to students in Hawaiʻi over the years, including $219,000 in scholarships this year.

May 19-25 is also Hurricane Preparedness Week in Hawai’i and officials urge everyone in the state to take action now, before a tropical cyclone looms, to make sure they, their loved ones and neighbors have what they need to weather a storm.

Shelly Gerardo serves on the board of directors for Kaua‘i United Way; Allan Duldulao is known as a championship-winning soccer coach.

Last week’s storm appears to be the latest kona low to directly affect the main Hawaiian Islands in at least the past 20 years.

The Shaka License Plate Program is the culmination of a two-year statewide review process, according to Project Shaka.

The complaint, first filed in August 2021, accuses Zuckerberg’s LLC and his property’s head of security, Hank Barriga, of wrongful death, negligence, infliction of severe emotional distress, and punitive damages due to 70-year-old security guard Rodney Medeiros dying after being told to climb a muddy trail in rainy weather following his shift on Aug. 4, 2019.

Upon arrival, first responders from a distance observed a small cloud of gas vapor from a 120-gallon propane tank.

The 43-year-old West Virginia woman was found on the Kukui Trail.

UHERO reported high interest rates, high prices and low supply have continued to keep housing extremely unaffordable.

The high surf advisory that is in effect for the southern shorelines of the state, including on Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau, was again extended and is now in effect thrugh 6 p.m., with surf of 6 to 10 feet still in the forecast.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green, M.D., issued a proclamation recognizing National School Nurse Day on May 8, 2024.

This week, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists dig a little deeper and share new discoveries they are making about the erupsions 100 years ago by examining the ash deposited during the events.

The money from former Hawai‘i resident liver transplant recipient John C. Couch will establish the first-ever gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine that will train physicians to treat liver diseases.

The national recruitment for the next president of the University of Hawaiʻi 10-campus system will officially begin in late May 2024 after the UH Board of Regents approved the position description and leadership profile at its May 16 monthly meeting.

Holland, who is the food systems director for 501(c)3 non-profit Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action, is an outspoken activist and organizer in the community. She has also gained visibility for her role as a leading member of a group against the reconstruction of the Coco Palms Hotel in Wailua.