Universal Free School Meals Linked to Lower Childhood Blood Pressure: JAMA

Researchers have determined in a new study that the implementation of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), a federal policy of universal free school meals for low-income area schools, was associated with better childhood blood pressure. The...

‘Sips for Seedlings’ brews support for Hawaiʻi’s endangered plants

Reading time: < 1 minute The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Lyon Arboretum and the Plant Extinction Prevention Program (PEPP) in UH Mānoa’s Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit joined forces with Honolulu Beerworks to host “Sips for Seedlings,” an...

Hawaiʻi Department of Health investigates possible avian flu case in waterfowl

October 14, 2025, 12:00 PM HST Avian influenza research at the University of Hawaiʻi. PC: UH Three state agencies are on alert after laboratory testing identified a presumptive case of avian influenza on Friday in an ailing duck that was found...

Stem Cell Technique Could Preserve Endangered Bird Species

Birds are a critical part of the global ecosystem; they enable our food production through consumption of agricultural pests like aphids and rodents, and control the spread of diseases by eating insects like mosquitos and ticks. However, around 15...

Hypersonic-Armed Destroyers and Submarines are Relocating to Hawaii

A series of upgrades and modernizations at Pearl Harbor are preparing the Honolulu Naval Base for all three hypersonic-armed Zumwalt-class destroyers and up to three hypersonic-armed Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines. The move is a...

Hawaiian Council’s 24th annual convention comes to a close at Tulalip

TULALIP—The 2025 Native Hawaiian Convention came to a close today, Thursday, October 9, wrapping up four days of lūʻau, workshops, performances, and discussions all centered around the life, culture, and policies of the Native Hawaiian people. The...

Healing Our Soldiers — Hawaii’s MRPU

Circa 2006 There are too many stories for Major Edna Smith to narrow it down to just one. Selecting one single soldier’s rehabilitation testimony is like picking which child has left a greater impression on a mother. Each is unique. Each is...

State hires engineering program manager for Maui, a job tasked with maintaining hundreds of buildings

Wade Shimabukuro With the hiring of Wade Shimabukuro at its Maui district office, the Department of Accounting and General Services now has staffed district offices in Maui County, West Hawaii, East Hawaii and Kauai. The department announced...

Hawaii, Dunedin link

In the far-off herbarium of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawaii, are a set of specimens collected in New Zealand just on a hundred years ago. About 80 are from the botanic garden in Dunedin. In 2024, Dr Christopher Havran of Campbell...

National Science Foundation invests in project to reduce grassland fire risk

New funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation could help researchers understand and reduce grassland fire risk in the Southern Great Plains. The five-year project is led by grassland fire expert Jon Henn at the University of Illinois...

Hawaiian Electric Reaches 1-Gigawatt Milestone in Customer-Sited Solar and Storage

Hawaiian Electric has reached a milestone with the combined customer-sited rooftop solar and battery storage connected to its grids exceeding 1 gigawatt of capacity, equivalent to powering about 100 million LED lightbulbs. This milestone comes...

DAGS hires new Engineering Program Manager for Maui District Office

DAGS Director and Comptroller Keith Regan (left); Wade Shimabukuro, Engineering Program Manager – Maui District Office (second from right). The Department of Accounting and General Services has named Maui native Wade Shimabukuro, of Wailuku, as...

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines reveal new, unified cabin experience as booking integration progresses

Share on LinkedInLinkedIn Share on TwitterTwitter Share on FacebookFacebook Share on RedditReddit Share on FlipboardFlipboard Share on TumblrTumblr Share via EmailGmail Share on WhatsAppWhatsApp As Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines continue...

The Hawaiian surfers who exposed bias in science

In a time when the world was changing fast for indigenous Hawaiians, Duke Kahanamoku was already becoming a legend. Best known today as the father of modern surf culture, Kahanamoku entered the public eye as an Olympic champion swimmer and...

Hawaii Community Foundation taps pandemic-era ‘resilience fund’

The Hawaii Community Foundation has reactivated its Hawaii Resilience Fund to confront what leaders say is one of the most severe threats to the state’s nonprofit sector in decades: the loss of federal funding that sustains food programs, housing...

ʻUlu pioneer honored for 40 years of advocacy

Reading time: < 1 minuteRagone has advocated for ʻulu for more than four decades. (Photo credit: Jim Wiseman) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Associate Professor Diane Ragone has been recognized for her global leadership in advocating for ʻulu....

Hawaii Hits Milestone in Rooftop Solar

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Hawaii has the highest rate of rooftop solar power adoption in the US, on a per capita basis. It makes sense, as the power grid is largely (~65%) powered by imported fossil...

What Happens In The Brain When People Grow Up Speaking Hawaiian And English?

Most research focuses on global languages like English, French or Chinese. Hawaiian voices have largely been left out. More than 40 years ago, our kūpuna and community leaders fought to bring ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi back to life. They dreamed that our...

UH medical school celebrates 60 years of healing in Hawaiʻi

Reading time: 2 minutesSecond-year medical students perform a hula at the 60th anniversary celebration. Sixty years after welcoming its first class, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) continues to shape...

Editorial: Hawaii gouged by energy clawback

The Trump administration announced early in October that it would rescind $7.56 billion in awards supporting energy projects in primarily blue (majority-Democrat) states nationwide. That wrecks expectations for $67 million in federal funding for...