The grant will create an estimated 200 badly-needed new jobs in the economically-depressed and underserved Waiʻanae community.

Historian Ambeth Ocampo will present an assessment of personal diaries left behind by Ferdinand Marcos and his family when they fled the Philippines.

Currently, graduate students at UH are the only state-employed workers that are not permitted to unionize or collectively bargain with their employer.

HB553 would allow graduate assistants at UH to collectively bargain and form a labor union, but Governor Ige has informed the legislature of his intent to veto the bill.

The Mauna Kea Visitors Center is also closed until further notice.

The Thirty Meter Telescope Corporation continues to postpone construction efforts on Mauna Kea, but Governor Ige says the corporation has the right to proceed.

The Native Hawaiian council of the University of Hawaiʻi system has called for a system-wide walkout among all Native Hawaiian-serving programs in protest over the proposed Thirty-Meter Telescope project.

OHA leaders emphasize the need to address unresolved legal matters while the TMT construction moratorium remains in place.