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More than 1,000 eligible individuals, both Kaiser Permanente members and non-members, were vaccinated at a mass vaccination event held on Saturday, March 27, at the Kaiser Permanente Wailuku Medical Office.

After months of developing rigorous safety guidelines and a television broadcast plan that will allow for a virtual audience experience, the Merrie Monarch Festival announced that the hula competition will be held this summer.

A Montana man was arrested on Maui on Friday, March 26, for alleged violation of rules and orders related to travel quarantine.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 113 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Saturday, including 60 on O‘ahu, 30 on Maui, 14 on Hawai‘i Island, one on Kaua‘i, and eight in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed outside of the state. There were a total of 1,052 cases logged over the past two weeks, 335 of them in Maui County.

A Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter aircrew located the boater at 1:30 a.m. holding a bundle of life jackets. The aircrew hoisted the boater and transported him to Queens Medical Center due to having symptoms of hypothermia.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 123 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Thursday, including 59 on O‘ahu, 44 on Maui, 14 on Hawai‘i Island, and six in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed outside of the state. There were a total of 1,010 cases logged over the past two weeks, 327 of them in Maui County.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Hawaiian Homes Commission Act beneficiaries presented Hoʻokupu, representing homesteads on all islands, at DHHL’s Hale Kalanianaʻole office in recognition of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole’s 150th birthday on Friday, March 26, 2021.

Kupuna Clinic Vaccine Updates: Staff from the Office of the Mayor will provide assistance to kupuna and others who need help registering for vaccines from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, March 29, 2021, at the Binhi At Ani Filipino Community Center at 780 Oneheʻe Ave. in Kahului. Individuals will be signed up to receive a […]

The proposed budget totals $828.9 million, including $669.6 million for operations and $159.3 million in capital improvement projects. Key highlights include:

The Hawai‘i Department of Health announced today that the state will extend COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to people age 60 and older beginning Monday, March 29.

United Airlines today announced it will start new service between Orange County, Calif. and Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

Olympic swimming hopeful Nicholas Dworet should have been celebrating his 21st birthday Wednesday, but instead family, friends and strangers honored the memory of the Parkland school shooting victim Hawaiian style at Lanikai Beach on Oʻahu. The ceremony featured hula dancing, a young Maui musician’s original song, a ¼-mile-long lei from Maui and a blessing from Hawaiʻi spiritual leader Kimokeo Kapahulehua.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 122 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Thursday, including 84 on O‘ahu, 20 on Maui, 12 on Hawai‘i Island, and six in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed outside of the state. There were a total of 957 cases logged over the past two weeks, 304 of them in Maui County.

For the first two months of 2021, visitors to Maui were down 58 percent to 29,060 visitors per day, compared to 69,281 visitors per day at the same time in 2020.

A Kīhei man arrested during this month’s Operation Keiki Shield 7 law enforcement operation, is now accused of sex assault by individuals who have since come forward, police said.

He said rumors circulating on social media and elsewhere about high school graduation ceremonies that prohibit parents from attending at War Memorial Stadium, are inaccurate.

Construction is set to start April 5 on a new concrete ferry pier at the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation’s Lahaina Small Boat Harbor.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 58 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Wednesday, including 24 on O‘ahu, 22 on Maui, seven on Hawai‘i Island, one on Moloka‘i, one on Kaua‘i, and three in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed outside of the state. There were a total of 897 cases logged over the past two weeks, 302 of them in Maui County.

Over the 20 year period between 2000 and 2020, the annual number of permits processed in Maui County increased 261.4 percent, the number of firearms annually registered soared 409.1 percent, and the tally of firearms annually imported was up 466 percent. Record high tallies of firearms registered and imported were reported for 2020.

The Hawaiʻi Board of Agriculture approved the expansion of coffee quarantine areas to include the islands of Oʻahu and Lānaʻi due to the coffee leaf rust, a fungus that threatens Hawaiʻi’s important coffee industry.