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Hawaii Reboots Depression-Era Conservation Corps Using Pandemic Assistance Funds Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. A Kupu Aina Corps work crew funded by CARES Act money uses chainsaws to clear invasive mangroves from the area around Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Courtesy Malama Pu'uloa The whine of chainsaws and rumble of wood chippers are echoing around the shores of Pearl Harbor. Work crews are clearing an invasive species of mangrove from the shoreline and coastal streams that empty into Hawaii's most famous body of water. "Pearl Harbor is being choked out...

3:01 For several weeks, the whine of chainsaws and rumble of woodchippers have been heard around the shores of Pearl Harbor. Work crews have been clearing invasive mangroves from coastal streams that empty into Hawaii’s most famous body of water. Amanda Millin, a field crew manager overseeing a team of five, says red mangrove is choking the Pearl Harbor ecosystem.  “Everywhere else in the tropics, all around the world,  mangrove sequesters carbon, creates biodiversity, it’s erosion control but here in Hawaii mangrove is invasive and it takes over,” she explains. Millin and her crew ...

Here's how badly Canadian border closure has hit Whatcom tourism The Bellingham Herald 12/21/2020 Dave Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Dec. 21—With the border closed to nonessential travel for most of 2020, Whatcom residents have seen shorter lines at places like stores and gas stations. A new report indicates just how deep the decline was during the pandemic. Whatcom County saw about 506,000 fewer Canadian vacationer trips than it typically would between March and September, according to a study published by the Border Policy Research Institute at Wes...

3:13 When Congress approved the massive pandemic relief measure in March, the funds came with a catch: all the money had to be spent before January 1st, 2021.Unspent funds would be returned to the U.S. Treasury. The Hawaii Data Collaborative has been tracking the local disbursement of CARES funds locally. The project is being headed by former State Senator Jill Tokuda. “The bottom line is unless the federal government changes something, the good or service must be received by the 31st,” explains Tokuda. Tokuda and the Hawaii Data Collaborative estimate that with the New Year nearly upon u...

These guns were not obtained legally? >> right. he simply couldn't. we don't know when he bought it. it could be that he bought it before he was discharged. and bought it legally. but at the point that he was discharged, it became illegal to keep it. but if it was purchased after his discharge, that will be a big question about how he got it. >> pete williams, thank you very much for your minute-by-minute reporting on this. >> you bet. >> i want to play a little bit, though, of a very emotional interview that my colleague did just a little while ago with sandy ward. she's a grandmother and had...