WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Arnold and Porter, a law firm, issued the following news: Arnold & Porter recently counseled Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., the largest U.S. lodging real estate investment trust, in an agreement to acquire the fee simple interest in Hawaii's Ritz-Carlton O'ahu, Turtle Bay (formerly Turtle Bay Resort) -- including 49-acres of land entitled for development -- for $680 million net of key money. The transaction closed on July 31, 2024. The 450-room resort, which increases Host more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 9 -- Gov. Josh Green, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2024: Governor Josh Green, M.D., today signed an emergency proclamation aimed at stabilizing Hawai'i's volatile condominium insurance market, which has seen unprecedented rate increases due to a hardening global insurance industry and recent increase of catastrophic events around the world. Hawai'i's property insurance market faces significant challenges due to its small size, high real estate c more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 6 -- Gov. Josh Green, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2024: Governor Josh Green, M.D., today announced that the first Maui wildfire survivors have moved into units in the Hale O Laie interim housing project (formerly the Haggai Institute) in Kihei. The housing units were purchased by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) in coordination with the Hawaii Office of Recovery and Resiliency (ORR) and the state Department of Human more PR

MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: Research out of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and Smithsonian Institution is exploring an out-of-this-world approach to preserving Earth's animal species in the event of a global disaster--storing animal cells on the moon. A paper published in BioScience outlines a roadmap for the creation of a lunar biorepository and was authored by HIMB  more PR

MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much higher than previously believed. This discovery suggests that the intense UV radiation from these flares could significantly impact whether planets around red dwarf stars can be habitable. Led by current and former astronomers from the University of  more PR