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Vassilis Syrmos was unanimously approved by the UH Board of Regents to serve as the next Chancellor of the Manoa campus, starting July 1.

A deadly head-on collision on the Daniel K. Inouye Highway resulted in one fatality and one injury, marking the fifth death along a 13-mile stretch of the highway in the past month, prompting officials to push for additional safety improvements.

Governor Josh Green has created an independent Medicaid Fraud Strike Force to strengthen oversight and accountability in the wake of a federal decision targeting Hawaiʻi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

The US Department of Education has started the process to extend $46 million for the Native Hawaiian Education Program, which will provide early learning services, home visiting, workforce development, and language immersion programs to over 3,000 families in Hawai’i.

Point Source Youth, a New York-based nonprofit, has partnered with local organizations in Honolulu to provide a one-time cash payment of $3,700 to young people aged 18-24 experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.

“The hardest thing is that from day one, we have been told if there was another landfill, it’ll never be on the west side.”

“These cuts are a threat to my elderly patients, my family and our entire community.”