UH Hilo marked Arbor Day on Nov. 7 with three free public tours of its internationally accredited campus Botanical Gardens. Longtime community volunteers who tend the garden led tours on topics such as ancient cycads.
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The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court heard arguments Monday at Punahou School in a case seeking the release of the Honolulu Zoo's two Asian elephants, Mari and Vaigai, to a sanctuary. The Nonhuman Rights Project is asking for a writ of habeas corpus on their behalf, a remedy normally used to make sure people aren't improperly detained.
Final results released Tuesday night confirm Green Party candidate Pāʻele Kiakona won West Maui's House District 14 with 41.2% of the vote, making him the fifth Green Party candidate in the nation to win a state house seat. His margin grew to 119 votes over Democrat Sne Patel after the ballot-cure deadline; Kiakona, raised in Lahaina, was an organizer in the Lahaina Strong recovery effort after the 2023 wildfires.
Marching bands, local leaders, businesses and families lined Hilo for the 19th annual Hawaiʻi Island Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, ahead of today's federal holiday. U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda, newly re-elected, said she was grateful Hilo celebrates on a Saturday so she could thank veterans before returning to Washington.
Oʻahu Army veteran Tom Munoz, 69, marks this Veterans Day 90 days after a kidney transplant at Walter Reed National Medical Center, after waiting nearly a year and a half on transplant lists. He tells Kauaʻi Now he wants other veterans to know about Donor Outreach for Veterans, a nonprofit that helps veterans find living kidney donors.
