Team Now Preparing for Additional Releases This Fall (Hilo) – In their forest home in the Pu‘u Maka‘ala Natural Area Reserve on Hawai‘i Island, eleven ʻAlalā (native Hawaiian crows) appear to have little difficulty following several days of heavy rains generated by Hurricane Lane. The critically endangered birds, the first to have been successfully released into the wild from conservation breeding facilities last fall, are among the creatures who experienced more than 30 inch

NEW CENTER IN THE FUTURE FOR KAILAPA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Resource Center to be built with $500k CIP HONOLULU, Hawai‘i – Members of the Kailapa Community Association will develop the groundwork for their much anticipated resource center with $500,000 in Capital Improvement Project (CIP) funding recently released by the Ige Administration. The half a million dollar CIP funding will be used to construct phase one of the development of a community resource center in Kawaihae on

SENATOR INOUYE SELECTED TO JOIN NCSL SMART COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP HONOLULU, Hawai‘i - Senator Lorraine R. Inouye was selected as the only Hawai‘i legislator to participate in a new, invitation-only partnership project on smart communities. The Smart Communities Foundation Partnership is a public-private partnership, organized through the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) Foundation for State Legislatures. It brings together legislators, legislative

Members of the Hawaii State Senate today honored Mele Spencer of Hilo on the floor of the Senate chamber. Spencer was recently elected to a two-year term as Governor of Zonta International, presiding over District 9, which covers the states of Hawai‘i, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Spencer is only the second District 9 Governor from Hawai‘i in Zonta’s history. Spencer currently owns and operates J&M Farms with her husband and is involved in a number of community orga