Allan Parachini/Civil Beat Food hubs provide a way for farmers to sell their crops outside of grocery stores.
Allow travelers to Hawaii four days to get COVID-19 tests instead of three, and test again upon arrival.
The audit was requested in the aftermath of the Kealoha scandal.
Starting blended learning a few weeks after winter break — rather than at the start of the third quarter — would help ease the transition back into the classroom.
Many board members expressed consternation at proposed cuts that will largely be absorbed by schools in order to plug a minimum $165 million pandemic-related shortfall.
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Cory Lum/Civil Beat Allow travelers to Hawaii four days to get COVID-19 tests instead of three, and test again upon arrival.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat Starting blended learning a few weeks after winter break — rather than at the start of the third quarter — would help ease the transition back into the classroom.
Mayor Kirk Caldwell says the city will pay for inappropriate OT costs and federal relief money will be used for other programs.
Updated: A national organization has volunteered to help the board in the meantime as members prepare to ask the Legislature for help again.
Both deaths were on Oahu.
Hawaii State Teachers Association warns that proposed cuts could mean a loss of 1,000 teacher positions.
Perspiration samples from Hawaii residents recently diagnosed with COVID-19 are key to a study of whether dogs can sniff out the virus.
Nurses at the Makiki hospital have made pandemic-related policies a bargaining chip for the new three-year contract they’re negotiating.
Chief Susan Ballard says the FBI data on HPD’s clearance rates is wrong, but her department shared data with a city councilman that reveals similarly troubling numbers.
Even as more cases are anticipated, Hawaii is “doing pretty well” a state health official said.
Many of the cases in recent weeks have been associated with two correctional facilities.
Latest figures show Hawaii’s public schools lost 1,023 more students in the first quarter as overall enrollment plunged nearly 3% compared with last year.
Amid pandemic, state and local government leaders do not defer to the state’s major industry.
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John Johnson/One Breath Photo While we may not be apocalyptically doomed, we are definitely doomed to change.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat Some say systematic failures to respond to COVID-19 reveal just how challenging it will be to stop climate change, while others see reasons for hope.
Washington State House Republicans Focusing on your car’s carbon impact may be misguided.
Claire Caulfield/Civil Beat Debates within the Nanakuli and Maili community about a possible landfill expansion are heating up.
