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With masks optional for Hawaii public and charter schools starting fall semester, ventilation will play a key role in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in classrooms. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Matty Hiroto Inaba of Waimea turned 16 years old on Friday. He’s going to be a sophomore at Hawaii Preparatory Academy and likes to paint landscapes and play baseball and golf with his friends. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

HONOLULU — Bobby Edward Fort was 27 when he enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1994 and retired 22 years later with a secret security clearance that allowed him to land a job in Honolulu as a defense contractor. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A planned installation for an educational telescope at Halepohaku on Maunakea is on schedule to be completed some time in 2024. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

After years of COVID-induced stagnation, Hawaii visitor rates have all but recovered, with June arrivals nearly matching prepandemic numbers. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for Ka‘u and the leeward side of Hawaii Island beginning Sunday morning through the evening. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

HONOLULU — A U.S. defense contractor and his wife charged with fraudulently living for decades under the stolen identities of two dead infants told family they were going into the witness protection program before abruptly abandoning their house and leaving Texas about 40 years ago, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii…

From approximately 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday telecommunications were disrupted when an accidental severing of a fiber optic cable took place in Waikoloa Village. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Between 3,000 and 6,000 new homestead lots could be developed with $600 million allocated to the Department of Hawaii Home Lands this year. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

HONOLULU — A U.S. defense contractor and his wife who lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, according to federal court records unsealed in Honolulu. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The state Department of Health’s Safe Drinking Water Branch is seeking comments about Honua Ola Bioenergy’s (formerly Hu Honua Bioenergy) final report and modeling report of its application to operate an injection well at the Pepeekeo site of the almost completed wood-burning power plant. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Healthcare Association of Hawaii identified nurse aides as the most vacant position in the medical field statewide. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

An hours-long telecommunications outage that impacted much of West Hawaii on Tuesday was caused by the accidental severing of a fiber optic cable by a construction company working in South Kohala. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A pair of storms in the Eastern Pacific threaten to become hurricanes within the next few days. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Kaumana Drive between Lyman Springs and Nolemana Street will be closed for the next four hours as workers clear a downed utility pole. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

UPDATE: Police report that Hawaiian Telecom has successfully repaired its fiber optic cable and that cell and landline phone service to the west side of the island is now fully restored. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The annual state Judiciary juror questionnaires will soon be mailed to individuals who have a Hawaii state driver’s license or are registered to vote in Hawaii. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A state investigation found that a 60-year-old California elementary school teacher did nothing to provoke an attack Sunday by a Hawaiian monk seal named Rocky, who was swimming with her pup. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Two Hilo lawyers have been indicted in a corruption case involving a former housing specialist for the Hawaii County Office of Housing and Community Development. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A 48-year-old South Kona man was sentenced Friday to up to five years behind bars after being found guilty of keeping a minor under the age of 16 chained to a floor. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Board of Land and Natural Resources has approved a search for a new lessee for the former Country Club Condominium Hotel. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The effects of rising interest rates are beginning to be felt on the Big Island as numbers of prospective homebuyers taper off. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service