The state health department has shut down a community care foster family home in Waipahu. DOH's Office of Health Care Assurance revoked Herbert Sales's operating certificate and ordered that patients be immediately transferred or discharged. He was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.

Hawaiʻi’s hospitality industry continues to plan for a strong summer season. A key part of that is demand for air travel. And while demand is still increasing for visitors from the continental United States, it’s a different story from the Asia Pacific. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

Hawaiʻi lawmakers this year passed legislation creating a working group to develop ways to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions on transportation between the islands. Sen. Chris Lee says depending on imported fossil fuels gives Hawaiʻi high transportation costs but shifting to cleaner energy could lower those costs.

Most of the state is now under the highest Centers for Disease Control level for COVID-19. The levels are "a measure of the impact of COVID-19 illness on health and healthcare systems," the CDC says.

It’s no secret that housing prices in Hawaiʻi have soared in recent years. But rental costs have also been rising sharply since just before the pandemic began. Pacific Business News editor in chief A. Kam Napier has more on the rising prices — and what’s behind them.

President Biden was in South Korea on Friday starting his first trip to Asia as president. He’ll also travel to Japan and meet with other members of the “Quad” — leaders of Australia, India and Japan. One topic will be a new regional economic plan. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.