KAPOLEI, Hawai‘i – The Office of Veterans’ Services (OVS), a division of the State of Hawai‘i Department of Defense (HIDOD), has recently learned from our primary construction contractor, Nan Inc., ...
Read More DOD MEDIA RELEASE: Delay on Completion of Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home
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HONOLULU – Attorney General Holly T. Shikada joined a group of 20 Attorneys General in filing a friend of the court brief supporting the federal government’s efforts to regulate “ghost guns”: ...
Read More Press Release 2022-31 AG SHIKADA JOINS GROUP OF 20 ATTORNEYS GENERAL SUPPORTING FEDERAL RULE TO HELP STOP OF THE FLOW OF GHOST GUNS
HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) are conducting a follow-up survey to ...
Read More DOH News Release: Navy water system users encouraged to participate in follow-up health impact survey
HONOLULU – The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) recommends the use of the first bivalent booster vaccines designed specifically to protect against original COVID-19 and the most common forms of ...
Read More DOH News Release: New bivalent COVID-19 boosters offer enhanced protection
HONOLULU – The Circuit Court of the First Circuit (Oahu) is seeking applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsel. The compensation shall be as provided by law. Article I, Section 11 ...
Read More Hawaii State Judiciary – News Release: Seeking Applicants for First Circuit (Oahu) Independent Grand Jury Counsel
HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) launched its public outreach campaign for National Preparedness Month today with the first in a series of three animated video public service announcements ...
Read More NEWS RELEASE: HI-EMA LAUNCHES NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH CAMPAIGN WITH SERIES OF ANIMATED VIDEOS ON HURRICANE READINESS: “DON’T GET SCARED; GET PREPARED”
HONOLULU – The Hawaii State Capitol had power restored today following internal equipment failure that caused loss of power beginning Saturday, August 27. The Department of Accounting and General Services ...
Read More DAGS PRESS RELEASE: HAWAII STATE CAPITOL POWER RESTORATION
(Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park) – Today, eighty coral scientists, researchers, biologists, and managers from around the country received an up close and personal observation of the health of coral ...
Read More DLNR News Release – U.S. CORAL REEF TASK FORCE MEMBERS TOUR HARD-HIT HAWAI‘I CORAL ECOSYSTEM, August 31, 2022
DOH News Release: Trace levels of contaminants detected in Waiawa Correctional Facility water system
HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) is reporting that low levels of Tetrahydrofuran (THF) and 2-Butanone were recently detected for the first time in water samples collected ...
Read More DOH News Release: Trace levels of contaminants detected in Waiawa Correctional Facility water system
For photos click here. HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige and First Lady Dawn Amano-Ige today visited the Hiroshima Prefectural Library where they joined Japanese dignitaries in signing a Sister-Library Agreement between ...
Read More Governor’s Office – News Release – First sister library relationship established between Hawaiʻi and Hiroshima Prefecture