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The Hawaiʻi County Council has adopted a measure asking the state Agriculture and Health departments to work with farmers as they respond to the contagious avian flu.
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Trying to buy eggs but finding store shelves empty? You’re not the only one scrambling to find eggs. Amid a national egg shortage, small farmers in Maui County say they can’t keep up with the recent local demand. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol has more.
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A federal scientific publication has returned from a forced two-week hiatus with two papers examining the health effects of wildfires in Hawaiʻi and California. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resumed publication of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday.
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The bill that would have allowed recreational marijuana for those at least 21 years old passed out of its first committees earlier this week. It was supposed to then go to a full floor vote in the House. Instead, representatives voted Thursday to recommit the measure back to its original committee, effectively tabling it.
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Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and slugs that have eaten infected rat droppings. The Conversation talked to ecologist Randi Rollins about her work on how rat lungworm disease spreads between rodents, snails and humans.
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Attorney David Frankel responds to a recent court ruling over public beach access at the Kahala Hotel & Resort; Dr. Neda Nikpoor talks about an uptick of cases of keratoconus, a rare eye condition, on Hawaiʻi Island; and septuagenarian Vickie Kennedy shares how she adapted to going blind, and what others can learn from her decades-long journey
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Some Hawaiʻi Island lawmakers want the state to come up with a humane plan to manage avian flu. The Hawaiʻi County Council has introduced a resolution urging the state Department of Agriculture to work with local poultry farmers to develop a plan. The resolution was heard in a council committee meeting on Tuesday.
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Many will be observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday, but Jan. 20 also marks the 125th anniversary of the Chinatown fires here on Oʻahu. The Conversation talked to Wing Tek Lum about his new book that acknowledges that time of history through poems.
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A detection in a sample collected on Dec. 11 was so low that it wasn’t considered a positive. Samples collected on Dec. 18 and Jan. 8 also had similar low detections.
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Gov. Josh Green lays out the plan to deal with illegal fireworks; Neal Uno and Julia Ávila with the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Breadfruit Institute share tips on cultivating ʻulu and its ties to Brazil