“He’s the most gentle person ... and the best father,” she said of her husband, Lindani Myeni.

Firefighters responded just after 9 a.m. to Paakea Road and Hakimo Road.

Steven Labrash, mortician and director of the program, said he doesn’t want students to think of their silent teacher as an “anonymous entity.”

Waialua High was the first school in Hawaii to start a robotics program, and among the first in the nation to embrace the technology as an educational platform in 1999.

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Since the pandemic began, the state has seen 31,075 cases.

Ige said in an interview that the goal is to return kids to school in-person full-time and that he is confident the state will be able to enact the initiative smoothly.

While he fell short of the $200,000 grand prize, he won’t go home empty handed.

Extreme rain events predicted to become more common with human-caused global warming not only wreak havoc on land — the runoff from these increasingly severe storms also threatens Hawaii’s coral reefs.

A disturbance located east and northeast of the Big Island will maintain moderate to locally strong northeast winds through Thursday.

They are also suspected in several car thefts and a robbery in Kaneohe.

“The fact that I was even nominated for this was an honor."