HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 5 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 25 states and the District of Columbia, co-led by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, in renewing their request that U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos use her authority to discharge the federal student loans of all students w more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 8 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige has announced the appointment of Kathleen S. Y. Ho as director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC) in the state Department of Health. Ho has extensive experience as deputy attorney general in environmental law, having served as deputy attorney general in the Health Division since 1992. In addition, Ho was an adjunct professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at th more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 8 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige has appointed Chung I. Chang to serve as deputy director of the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT). Chang has most recently served as coordinator for DBEDT's Office of Aerospace Development. In addition, Chang was a bill researcher for the State Senate's Ways and Means Committee, and senior business analyst, section supervisor and marketing coordinator at HMSA. He more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 8 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige and first lady Dawn Amano-Ige will be traveling to Washington, D.C. for the National Governors Association's (NGA) Winter Meeting, a bipartisan gathering of the nation's governors. Gov. Ige will be meeting with members of Hawai'i's congressional delegation and participating in various governors' receptions, events and panel discussions. They include: Domestic and International Innovations fo more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 27 -- Hawaiian Electric issued the following news release Jan. 27: Hawaiian Electric crews will be replacing wooden poles and utility equipment along Kamehameha Highway on Friday, Jan. 31. The infrastructure upgrade is necessary to improve system reliability in the North Shore area. The work will require closing the Haleiwa-bound lane of Kamehameha Highway between Ashley Road and Pohaku Loa Way near Chun's Reef, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Traffic will be contra-flowed to o more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 7 -- Kaiser Permanente issued the following news release: * * * - The National Committee for Quality Assurance Quality Compass report recognized Kaiser Permanente's plan in Hawaii for several measures of quality care. * * * Kaiser Permanente Hawaii's Medicare plan performed in the top 10 nationally on several measures of quality care, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance Quality Compass(R) report. Out of more than 300 Medicare health plans nation more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 5 -- Kaiser Permanente issued the following news release: * * * - As a member of the Alliance of Health Care Unions, the Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals union is also part of Kaiser Permanente's Labor Management Partnership. * * * Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, a new union representing approximately 975 Kaiser Permanente Hawaii registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and respiratory therapists, has joined the Alliance of Health Care Unions. The more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 6 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawai'i Community Design Center (UHCDC) was awarded two national American Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Awards. UHCDC received recognition in the Practice + Leadership and Collaborative Practice categories. UHCDC, in the School of Architecture (http://www.arch.hawaii.edu/) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, is a novel government-partnered public-interest teaching practice t more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 8 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: * * * - UH President David Lassner and Omnitrak Group CEO Patricia Loui will be available for interviews at 12:30 pm in the Bachman Hall lobby of the UH Manoa campus. Please call (808) 348-4936 if you plan to attend. * * * The University of Hawai'i officially released its latest biennial student survey Friday, February 7, 2020 on sexual harassment and gender-based violence, issues that are prevalent among more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 8 -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: As a top 40 accruer of clinical trials among The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology institutions, the University of Hawaii Cancer Center as a Hawaii Minority Underserved NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) site has been seated on the Alliance Board of Directors for a three-year term of 2020-2022. The NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) at the University of Hawaii Cancer C more PR