HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 5 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Dec. 4: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a coalition of 13 state attorneys general to strongly urge Congress to allocate funding and codify coverage protections to guarantee that all people living in the United States are able to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine at no cost. Black, Latino, and Native Americans, and senior communities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, and a more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 2 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Dec. 1: Yesterday, a large coalition of states, cities, and counties argued before the United States Supreme Court against further efforts by the Trump Administration to unlawfully leave millions of undocumented immigrants out of the apportionment base that establishes the number of members in the House of Representatives for each state. Despite numerous losses in its efforts to politicize more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 2 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Dec. 1: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors has joined a coalition of attorneys general representing 43 states, the District of Columbia and 5 U.S. territories, urging Congress to extend the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economy (CARES) Act funding until the end of 2021. The effort is being led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who wrote the letter more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 1 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Nov. 30: Gov. David Ige today announced the appointment of Max Otani to serve as the director of the Department of Public Safety, effective Dec. 1, 2020. Otani replaces Nolan Espinda, who retired in September. "With Max taking the helm at Public Safety, I am confident that we can continue moving forward with initiatives set in motion by PSD's previous director, Nolan Espinda and acting director Fred Hyu more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 5 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed dire shortcomings in national public health infrastructure while also catalyzing extraordinary innovation in vaccine development and treatment. But how will the greatest health crisis in a century transform the future of medicine? To discuss the evolution of the COVID response in the United States and system changes necessary to prepare for future emergencies, as well as t more PR

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Dec. 4 -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news: Dec. 7 marks the 79th anniversary the day Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, was attacked by Japanese forces, marking the entrance of the United States into World War II. To remember this day and World War II, the Cline Library Special Collections and Archives (SCA) at Northern Arizona University has a collection of documents and photographs connected to the time period President Franklin De more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 5 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: The federal government has approved Gov. David Ige's request for an extension of funding that will allow the Hawaii National Guard to continue with COVID-19 assistance across the state through March 31, 2021. The Hawaii National Guard's citizen soldiers and airmen are performing critical missions such as contact tracing, working on mobile swab teams, health education for at-risk populations, screening, foo more PR

DAVIS, California, Dec. 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of California Davis issued the following news on Dec. 2: Pathology reports on more than 50 killer whales stranded over nearly a decade in the northeast Pacific and Hawaii show that orcas face a variety of mortal threats -- many stemming from human interactions. A study analyzing the reports was published today (Dec. 2) in the journal PLOS ONE. The study findings indicate that understanding and being aware of each threat is critical for manag more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Nov. 30 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded in the abyssal deep-sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The findings were published in Deep-Sea Research. "Our observations truly surprised us," said Astrid Leitner, lead author on the study, who conducted this work  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Nov. 30 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano was one of the largest volcanic events in Hawaii in 200 years. This eruption was triggered by a relatively small and rapid change at the volcano after a decade-long build-up of pressure in the upper parts of the volcano, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications by Earth science researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and U.S. Geo more PR