HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 10 -- Hawaii Attorney General Holly T. Shikada issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2022: The Department of the Attorney General released its annual report today detailing statewide and county firearm registration statistics for calendar year 2021. A total of 23,299 personal/private firearm permit applications were processed statewide during 2021, marking a 10.8% decrease from 26,122 applications processed in 2020. Of the applications processed in 2021, 96.1% wer more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 9 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) officials and policymakers celebrated the rollout of a pilot program that subsidizes the cost of school supplies at Na'alehu Elementary, one of the Title I schools participating in the program. "I not only see smiling faces, but I see the next round of leaders for Naalehu and Hawaii," Board of Education Member Kaimana Barcarse told Na'alehu Elementary s more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 10 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. Ige and the mayors of Hawaii's counties today announced that an Advisory Committee, including all four major counties, will determine the recommended uses for $78 million in opioid settlement funds. The funding is part of nationwide settlements totaling $26 billion to resolve lawsuits against the three largest drug distributors and one of the largest drug manufacturers. Hawaii's portion of these set more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 10 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release: The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH)'s Food Safety Branch issued Lahaina Fish Company a green placard and approved its reopening after a follow-up inspection found that all critical food safety violations were corrected. Lahaina Fish Company located at 831 Front Street, Lahaina, had received a red placard on July 26, and was immediately closed. A follow up inspection was conducted on Aug. 4 and fou more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 11 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release: The Hawaii Department of Health announces scheduling opportunities for the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Novavax. Novavax is a two-dose primary series vaccine for individuals 18 and older. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends administering the second dose three to eight weeks after the first. Novavax is a protein subunit vaccine. It includes harmless proteins of the COVID-19 more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A comprehensive assessment of scientific literature has uncovered empirical evidence that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens, such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and more, have been--at some point--aggravated by climatic hazards. That eye-opening and startling finding is the topic of a research paper published on August 8 in Nature Climate Change by a team of researc more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 8 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Menthol in e-cigarettes may be harmful to respiratory health, according to new research by a team of University of Hawaii at Manoa experts. The findings come as e-cigarette use is on the rise among Hawaii's youth. Yi Zuo, UH Manoa professor of mechanical engineering and adjunct professor of pediatrics, has invented a groundbreaking method that allows the study of the health impact of e-cigarette ae more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii Cancer Center has contributed to a new report released on August 9, highlighting key takeaways on sunscreen including how ultraviolet (UV) radiation is associated with skin cancer and how sunscreen has contributed to risk reduction. It also recommended that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursue an ecological risk assessment on all UV filters, chemicals added to s more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a public release webinar on Tuesday, August 9, highlighting key takeaways from a new report on sunscreens. The report, Review of Fate, Exposure and Effects of Sunscreens in Aquatic Environments and Implications for Sunscreen Usage and Human Health, pulled together extensive amounts of information from both environmenta more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 11 (TNSbook) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A sacred tribute to survival, resistance and unbreakable bonds amongst Indigenous women and queer kanaka 'oiwi (Native Hawaiians) envelop a newly published poetry collection authored by a creative writing assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In her debut book Ask the Brindled, award-winning poet No'u Revilla casts a spotlight on themes of desire and intergenerational healing t more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 11 (TNSfund) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Kapi'olani Community College has been selected as one of 44 colleges and universities to receive a federal grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The project, Militourism and Indigenous Identities in Hawaii and Okinawa, is funded by a two-year $33,000 grant through the State Department's Increase & Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) pr more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 13 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The keys to saving endangered species and improving the ecology of our communities may be found in thousands of microbiomes and microbes examined by researchers from the ocean to the summit of the Waimea Valley watershed on O'ahu. A team of researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) conducted this monumental field expedition by samplin more PR