The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is seeking responses to an anonymous 5-question survey to provide its Board of Trustees helpful information for the Board’s Thursday (4/30) meeting on the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope. The survey asks participants about how…
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HONOLULU – The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has continued to urge Governor Ige and University of Hawaiʻi President Lassner to address the outstanding legal issues involved in the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope before the moratorium on construction is lifted….
More The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees met on April 9 during which the matter of Mauna Kea and the planned thirty-meter telescope (TMT) was discussed. The Board plans to gain greater clarity on the pending legal cases relating…
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Today, the State Commission on Water Resource Management (Water Commission) will re-engage a case that’s been languishing for years.
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HONOLULU (Feb. 18, 2015) – Hawaiians have always been innovative. When we lived in the valleys near streams, we built ‘auwai and lo‘i to feed our ‘ohana abundantly. When we decided to build a palace, we built the first royal…
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs will host community meetings throughout Hawai‘i, February 17 – March 3, seeking input from community stakeholders as it charts a conceptual master plan for its properties in Kakaʻako Makai.
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Earthjustice, on behalf of community groups Hui o Nā Wai ‘Ehā and Maui Tomorrow Foundation, today celebrated the return of millions of gallons a water to ‘Ῑao Stream (traditionally Wailuku River) and Waikapū Stream in Central Maui after more than a century of diversions that had drained the streams dry.
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HONOLULU (Sept. 1, 2014) – The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Research Program has been recognized for its work in geographic information systems by a global leader in mapping technologies. The Special Achievement in GIS Award from the Environmental Systems Research…
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KAUA‘I (July 22, 2014) – Maka‘ala Ka‘aumoana is among the dozens of unsung people trying to do right by their communities in the fierce legal battles over public rights to an increasingly vital treasure – water. The 67-year-old Native Hawaiian…
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