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• Feb 18, 2021 University of Hawaii staffers monitor a livestreamed Zoom meeting of the school's Board of Regents in Honolulu on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The need to prevent the spread of disease has turbo-charged the use of technology across Hawaii state government. AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy Updated 2/18/21, 2:36 p.m. Various measures that would affect funding for art and culture in Hawaii are moving through the state legislature. While the need in other sectors has never been greater, arts advocates say cutting state funding for the arts could eventually hamper the state's recove...
• 2 hours ago University of Hawaii staffers monitor a livestreamed Zoom meeting of the school's Board of Regents in Honolulu on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The need to prevent the spread of disease has turbo-charged the use of technology across Hawaii state government. AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy Various measures that would affect funding for art and culture in Hawaii are moving through the state legislature. While the need in other sectors has never been greater, arts advocates say cutting state funding for the arts could eventually hamper the state's recovery. The State Foundation on Cu...
Updated 1/25/21, 12:51 p.m. The Department of Health's State Laboratories Division has detected a variant of COVID-19 in the islands. The L452R strain was first detected in Denmark in March 2020, and is now found in more than a dozen U.S. states. A DOH release says the L452R variant is not shown to spread more quickly or poses a greater threat than other COVID-19 strains. But health officials are concerned because it has been linked to a growing number of cases in California. "Hawaii is not immune to new strains," said Health Director Dr. Elizabeth Char. "The arrival of L452R reminds us we mu...
State mismanagement of Native Hawaiian burial grounds Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, chairwoman of the O’ahu Island Burial Council Credit Mark Miller/Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Leaders of Hawai'i island's burial grounds are urging state lawmakers to investigate what they say is systemic and chronic mismanagement by the State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD). The heads of the state's island burial councils organized a statewide protest this week. Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, chairwoman of the O'ahu Island Burial Council, says some of the issues that continute to plague SHPD are preventing her...