Linsey Dower News Today

The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center and its nonprofit, Elepaio Social Services, held a blessing Monday morning at their new coconut nursery as they introduced a new initiative to save coconut tree species from the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle.

A new superintendent and new plaque at Honouliuli National Historic Site are the latest steps in efforts to preserve the site where Japanese Americans were held in internment during World War II and to eventually open the landmark to the public.

Nisei Veterans Legacy is scheduled to host the 18th annual Nisei Soldiers Memorial Service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on Sunday.

Residential Youth Serv­ices Empowerment has opened Apapane, its first youth sober house in Liliha where young adults ages 18-24 who are homeless may live and receive support while recovering from drug or alcohol addictions.

Na Keiki O Emalia is scheduled to host a keiki grief relief event on Sunday in Wailuku to help Maui families deal with the devastation inflicted by the Maui wildfires.

The university has tapped a six-year, $17 million grant from Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund for an international research project to involve Indigenous scholars in the training of new AI models.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is giving the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands $17.3 million in federal funds to expand high-speed Internet access in underserved native Hawaiian communities.

Labor advocates and minimum-wage workers may have a lot to cheer for during this legislative session, which opened Wednesday.

Lawmakers will also consider proposal to expand access to mental healthcare, create new jobs and fund higher education programs in Hawaii.

Journalism students swept all student categories.