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“Remember, give your best, work hard, be kind, and always put extra aloha… and patis,” said Simeon with a laugh.

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2021-2022 Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows program. After 13 years, Ka Ipu Kukui has graduated a total of 170 leaders.

The June 1, 2021, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Kīlauea weekly update summary reads: “Kīlauea Volcano is no longer erupting. No surface activity has been observed…It is possible that the Halema‘uma‘u vent could resume eruption or that Kīlauea is entering a period of quiescence prior to the next eruption.”

The confirmed cases included: 42 on O‘ahu (-1 probable); nine on Hawai‘i Island; 10 Maui (+3 probable); and one on Kaua‘i.

A group of fishermen stated they had pulled an unresponsive male from the water. Police say no life-saving measures were performed as officers determined the male to be deceased.

A lockdown was implemented at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center on Friday night after inmates in one housing module started a disturbance. The facility emergency response security team was given approval to use non-lethal means to gain compliance.

This commemorative Forever stamp honors the second-generation Japanese Americans, also known as nisei, that formed one of the most distinguished American fighting units of World War II: the all-Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, whose motto was “Go for Broke.”

The County Building was lit in rainbow colors on Friday night and the rainbow flag will fly in front of the Kalana o Maui building throughout the month of June in celebration of Aloha Pride Month in the County of Maui, serving as a reminder “to extend aloha to all.”

Governor David Ige today unveiled a list of benchmarks he has set for lifting restrictions on travel based on the statewide vaccination rates in Hawaiʻi.

The Maui Police Department is requesting the public’s help with any information pertaining to the whereabouts of Rashad Washington, 29, who was reported missing on June 3, 2021, after failing to arrive in Arizona from Maui.

The confirmed cases included: 25 on O‘ahu (+2 probable); 25 on Hawai‘i Island; 14 Maui (-1 probable); and three cases in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state (+1 probable).

Friends, family and community members are mourning the loss of Wilfredo “Fred” Guzman, a longtime member of the sports, news and soccer community on Maui.

The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations will start requiring Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or “PUA” claimants to make three job contacts beginning the week of June 13, 2021.

A new infestation of stinging and invasive little fire ants was confirmed on a property in Huelo, Maui in May. Despite the proximity of this site to another infestation in Huelo, experts from the Maui Invasive Species Committee say these sites do not appear to be related.

Hawaiʻi Land Trust received $50,000 to support iwi kūpuna protection at Hawaiʻi Land Trust’s 277-acre Waihe‘e Coastal Dunes & Wetlands Refuge on Maui.

The state and four non-profit organizations have teamed up to create a new statewide number to report marine debris and derelict fishing gear.

The confirmed cases included: 30 on O‘ahu (+6 probable); two on Hawai‘i Island (+1 probable); one on Kaua‘i; Maui (+1 probable); and four cases in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

A high-resolution, real-time wave run-up forecast tool, able to predict coastal flooding up to six days in advance, has been developed for the West Maui shoreline, the University of Hawaiʻi reports.

Improvements to the Hāna Boat Ramp and wharf will result in construction and closures that may impact boaters beginning the last week of June.

“We see no detectable changes in activity at the summits or along the rift zones of Lōʻihi, Kīlauea, or Mauna Loa as a result of this earthquake. Aftershocks are possible and could be felt.”