The world's largest celebration of Indigenous Pacific Islanders is less than three weeks away, and festival planners say they're ready to host. HPR's Cassie Ordonio explains what has been going on behind the scenes.
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The Honolulu City Council has approved a measure to establish a separate Ocean Safety department for Oʻahu. Prior to this, ocean safety services currently fall within the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, along with ambulance services.
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The final map will serve as a public tool to help reduce flood risk. This could save lives, as well as property, and restore Maui County’s prominent natural wetland ecosystems.
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The Ethics Commission found Allison Wong Daniel voted on a decision to gift a mural from the Jean Charlot Foundation to the Arts in Public Places Collections while serving on both boards. Daniel was a member of the SFCA commission from 2018 to 2022.
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A little more than 2 million acres have been designated a Sentinel Landscape, which opens up access to tens of millions of federal dollars for land conservation projects.
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It's graduation season across the islands — and on one island, it's been particularly noteworthy. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol has that story from Molokaʻi.
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A case that challenges whether or not short-term rentals are allowed on farmland in Hawaiʻi County has made its way to the state’s highest court.
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Elected officials, health experts and others celebrated the groundbreaking of construction and renaming of the Straub Benioff Medical Center, following a $100 million donation from tech billionaire and philanthropist Marc Benioff.
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