Hawai'i State News

Genki Sushi is donating $50,000 to the Hawai’i Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund. It also will be donating every month for the rest of the year to support the wildfire relief and recovery efforts.

Resources and special funding are available for UH-Maui College students from the hard hit areas of West Maui and Kula.

This initiative addresses concerns raised by various groups and individuals who have organized resource drives in recent days and encountered shipping backlogs, leading to storage challenges.

The event is raising disaster relief funds urgently needed to support and sustain victims of the wildfires that have affected communities around Maui and devastated the historic town of Lāhainā.

Four of the victims have been officially identified. The names will be released after their families are notified.

Thirty years after “Jurassic Park” first roared into movie theaters, Kaua‘i film professionals continue to remember the film with love. And so do tourists, who flock to the Garden Isle to visit the locations of their favorite movie moments.

Scientists around the globe are working on myriad ways to reduce the effects of climate change, including István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, who has devised a novel idea to lessen the amount of sunlight hitting our planet.

With the official death toll rising to 89, the Lahaina fire became the deadliest US fire in the past century. And, Hawai’i Gov. Josh Green said the number of dead “is going to rise.”

It’s too early to tell, however, if the tropical storm or two other developing low pressure systems in the Eastern Pacific will impact the Hawaiian Islands.

Officials encourage cash donations, which can buy good that support the Maui economy and be delivered where and when they are needed.

Businesses, organizations and individuals throughout the Hawaiian Islands have come together to send much needed water, non-perishable food and other items to help people affected by the wildfires.

The Hawai‘i State Art Museum’s latest exhibit, “Creatures and Characters,” features diverse artworks by 39 artists.

Firefighters continue working to extinguish flare-ups and contain fires in Lāhainā, Pūlehu/Kīhei and Upcountry Maui.

While the security line appeared daunting, with more than 300 people in a line that snaked three rows outside and inside like a Disney World ride, it moved efficiently fast early Friday afternoon.

One hundred percent of proceeds from the concert will support Maui’s severely impacted communities through donation portals including Maui United Way, Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, Hawaiʻi People’s Fund and Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.

All funds received from pineapple sales will be used to keep Maui Gold employees working to carry out Pineapple Pledge initiatives, with a portion of sales also going to other local relief organizations.

The fundraiser is in support of the American Red Cross, Pacific Islands Region’s relief efforts on Maui amid the devastating and deadly wildfires.

The declaration follows President Joe Biden’s major disaster declaration and gives Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services health care providers and suppliers greater flexibility in meeting emergency health needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

The foundation is the philanthropic arm of Hawai‘i-born and raised entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Case’s Kaua’i-based Grove Farm.

The Emergency Proclamation by Acting Gov. Sylvia Luke on Aug. 8 allows the Hawai‘i Board of Agriculture to activate an emergency loan program.