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The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement have partnered to launch the DHHL Wildfire Relief Program.
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The Hawaiian Community Development Board is giving its tenants more time to move out of a transitional housing complex in Māʻili. HCDB came under fire last month when several tenants expressed frustration with having to find shelter by late February.
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The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is making last-minute changes to its spending plan for the $600 million the agency needs to encumber by the end of June. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports the revised plan puts a pause on several projects that have been in the pipeline for years.
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Senate Bill 2650 would set aside funds to continue the exploration of geothermal hot spots on lands overseen by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
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As we get our bearings in 2024, we’re revisiting a few conversations with local leaders who are charting our path forward.
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Supporters of the bill say every option to reduce the waiting list should be considered. Critics say the only way to remove Native Hawaiians from the list should be to place them on the land. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.
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Hawaiʻi lawmakers are now on day three of the 2024 legislative session, and measures are beginning to emerge. HPR reporter Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi breaks down some of the issues facing Native Hawaiian-serving state agencies.
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This week, Director Kali Watson told legislators that DHHL will need more than $600 million on top of that to develop new land the agency plans to acquire with the money from Act 279.
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Connect Kākou was launched on Tuesday by Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke. It's a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi and several state agencies, including the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Hawaiʻi Broadband and Digital Equity Office.
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More than 2,500 class members have been affected by delays in financial transfers. They have been held up by an appeal in the Kalima v. State of Hawaiʻi case, which the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court dismissed Thursday.