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Need a crash course on digital literacy? Free classes available at Hawaii public libraries
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - If you or someone you know is in need of a crash course on digital literacy and computer basics, the state is hosting free, entry level computer classes at public libraries across the state. These classes will be one-hour sessions and no computer is required to attend.
Salvation Army’s monthly donation event approaches
The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) will hold its monthly donation event on Aug. 23. The Salvation Army will be at the Kaua‘i Resource Center, located at 3460 Ahukini Road in Līhu‘e from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Residents, businesses, and other organizations can bring in...
Staffing Shortages Plus More Cases Are Causing Delays At The State Public Housing Agency
The Hawaii Public Housing Authority has reduced the amount of time it can spend meeting with Honolulu tenants in the low-income housing program. That cutback combined with other changes across the state are frustrating tenants and their advocates over what they say is the agency’s increasingly slow and inconsistent communication efforts.
Undergrad projects shine at UROP summer symposium
Nearly 100 undergraduate students from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Leeward Community College, as well as other universities across the nation, showcased their projects at the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Symposium on August 2. Hosted annually by the UH Mānoa Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), the nine-week summer research and creative work program culminated with hybrid oral presentations and poster presentations at the Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center.
Maui Wildfires Smoldered Underground, Threatening Water For Agriculture
The wildfires that burned across Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 became the deadliest conflagration in the United States in more than a century. While the harm to homes and tourism drew the most attention, agriculture was also heavily affected across the island, and the harm did not stop once the flames were out.
Chemical Plume Found In Closed Aiea Drinking Wells May Come From Red Hill
Honolulu Board of Water Supply tests taken this summer indicate that a plume of contaminants found in fuels and other industrial sources recently drifted through a pair of shuttered and sealed drinking wells in Aiea. The local water agency believes the plume of so-called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, may...
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