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To date, Hawaiʻi Land Trust has protected more than 21,500 acres of land throughout the Islands – 2,100 acres are Hawaiʻi Land Trust owned public preserves open for everyone to enjoy, and over 19,000 acres are protected via conservation easements restricting privately owned lands. HILT protects coastlines, wahi kupuna (Hawaiian cultural landscapes), and lands that grow healthy food for Hawaiʻi’s people..

Exact times and routes will depend on weather conditions.

Response Grant is to serve the Native Hawaiian lāhui in alignment with the strategic foundations, directions, and outcomes of 15-year Mana i Mauli Ola Strategic Plan.

A total of 3,030 individuals have been hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 infection since the pandemic began, while at least 552 have died.

Individuals should continue to use Old Saddle Road as a detour.

For further information contact the Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park visitor center at 326-9057.

The gates at the Old Kona Airport Park will not open in the morning on Wednesday, Aug. 18, and will remain closed for at least a half day.

Crews will remain on scene through Saturday night.

Hawai´i’s healthcare system already hit its tipping point. Now, officials say, it has passed it.

The University of Hawaiʻi is offering free COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday, Aug. 19 at UH Hilo.

COVID-19 testing and vaccination are scheduled in Hilo, Waimea and Kona today, Aug. 14.

Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation announced weekly road and lane closures for Aug. 14-20.

The Hawaiʻi Department Health reports 791 new COVID-19 cases as of Saturday, Aug. 14, bringing the statewide total to 50,355.

Approximately 320 acres have been scorched in a brush fire that ignited in South Kohala near mile marker 48.5 off of Daniel K. Inouye Highway Friday, Aug. 13.

An increase in COVID-19 cases was reported in public schools across all Hawaiʻi Department of Educationʻs complexes on the Big Island.

A section of Daniel K. Inouye Highway will remain closed as firefighters continue to battle a brush fire that has scorched approximately 210 acres near mile marker 48.

The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations will start accepting telephone appointments for complex, disputed unemployment insurance claims.

Authorities are seeking the publicʻs assistance locating a Puna man who is considered armed and dangerous.

A portion of Daniel K. Inouye Highway is closed as emergency personnel battle a brush fire near mile marker 48.5, officials reported this afternoon.

In Hawai´i’s attempts to forge a new normal, the state has stumbled into an unprecedented phase of the same old pandemic, only this time on steroids.