The Associated Press HONOLULU — Hawaii lawmakers opened a new session of the Legislature on Wednesday with House leaders proposing to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour and spend $600 million on housing for Native Hawaiians on the waiting list for Hawaiian homelands. The ...
The Maui News Hawaii will receive more than $47 million to help pay for 955 state-contracted medical staff to assist local hospitals that are struggling with the omicron surge of COVID-19, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has obligated the advance of $47.9 million, half of the $95.8 million sought by the state Department of Health at the request of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, according to HI-EMA, which managed and facilitated the emergency funding request to FEMA. The funds will help deploy 955 medical ...
The number of active COVID-19 cases declined to 36 at the Maui Community Correctional Center after three employees recovered, the state Department of Public Safety reported Wednesday. Thirty-four inmates with active cases were in medical isolation at the Wailuku jail. The department reported 14 negative inmate test results and 30 negative staff test results Wednesday.
University of Hawaii campuses will delay a return to in-person and hybrid classes by another week after the state reported another record-high single-day count of COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. UH had announced Dec. 28 that it would move many courses online for the first two weeks of the spring ...
From improving infrastructure to boosting health care training on Maui as well as addressing the ongoing effects of the pandemic, Maui County’s state legislators will have lots to handle this legislative session, which begins today. Among their tasks will be to vet Gov. David Ige’s budget ...
Latest developments: • State Department of Health on Tuesday reported a record-high 6,252 new confirmed and probable cases statewide, including 3,949 cases on Oahu, 834 on Hawaii island, 816 on Maui, 547 on Kauai, 24 on Molokai, 10 on Lanai and 72 Hawaii residents diagnosed out of state. • There have now been 180,838 confirmed and probable cases statewide, including 128,090 on Oahu, 21,859 in Maui County (20,805 on Maui, 705 on Molokai and 349 on Lanai), 19,249 in Hawaii County and 7,241 on Kauai. A total of 4,399 Hawaii residents have been diagnosed outside of the state. • ...
