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Office of the Governor Press Releases

HONOLULU – Protection of Hawai‘i lands having valuable cultural, natural, or agricultural resources can be achieved through grants from the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ (DLNR) Legacy Land Conservation ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE: Hawai’i’s legacy land conservation program seeks applicants for conservation acquisition funds

HONOLULU – The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ (DCCA) Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) along with 30 state attorneys general today announced a major settlement with the three ...
Read More DCCA NEWS RELEASE: State Office of Consumer Protection Announces Million Settlement with Credit Reporting Agencies

HONOLULU — The state Department of Transportation advises Hilo and Keaukaha residents of an expected increase in aircraft traffic over the area due to airfield maintenance work at the Hilo ...
Read More DOT NEWS RELEASE: Hilo International Airport to close runway 8-26 for airfield maintenance

Attorney General Doug Chin joined with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and other states in a complaint charging four sham cancer charities and their operators with bilking more than $187 ...
Read More AG NEWS RELEASE: Attorney General joins Federal, State crackdown against four cancer charities that allegedly bilked more than 7 million from consumers

HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige expresses his condolences to the family of the Marine who died in an aviation accident at Bellows Air Force Station in Waimānalo on Sunday. The ...
Read More NEWS RELEASE: Statement from Governor David Ige on aviation mishap in Waimanalo

HONOLULU – The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) reminds the public that the season for taking ula and ula papapa (spiny and slipper lobsters) and Kona crabs in ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE: Reminder: Lobster and Kona crab season closure now in effect

HONOLULU— The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) reminds the public that the moi fishing season is closed beginning Monday, June 1, 2015. State regulations make it unlawful for ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE: Closed season for moi begins June 1

HONOLULU — At the direction of the President of the United States, national and state flags shall be flown at half-staff on Friday, May 15, 2015 until sundown, in recognition ...
Read More NEWS RELEASE: Flags to fly at half-staff in honor of Peace Officer Memorial Day and Police Week 2015

HONOLULU – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found the Hawai’i Health Connector (HHC) to be non-compliant with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) earlier this year.  The non-compliance ...
Read More NEWS RELEASE: Ige administration actively addressing Hawai‘i Health Connector non-compliance

Honolulu – When the 55-foot sailing vessel Doubloon broke apart off Mission Beach in Laie, it left a 1/2 mile long path of debris.  Today staff from the DLNR Land ...
Read More DLNR NEWS RELEASE: Mission beach partially cleared of debris from destroyed sailing vessel