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Settlement talks are underway including the creation of a panel to oversee reforms needed to cope with the pandemic in Hawaii’s prisons and jails.

Nearly all of Hawaii’s recent Covid cases are the delta variant, and health officials say community spread is behind the surge.

Non-Covid patients are casualties of swelling coronavirus hospitalizations.

Big events are still happening in Hawaii even as hospital ICUs fill up.

The VA would own the new facility, which would consolidate medical care, mental health and benefits for veterans on the Valley Isle.

As the Covid-19 delta variant drives new cases, business groups are discussing whether to support policies requiring customers to be vaccinated.

Despite a year of fluctuating restrictions in parks across the islands, a change in fees gives the parks division an unanticipated increase in cash.

A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said that the arrests were the third and fourth made by the office for faking vaccination documentation.

The U.S. government is now rushing to evacuate civilians after months of warnings that a humanitarian disaster was looming.

Kaiser stopped covering out-of-pocket costs for Covid-19 patients this month, affecting about 190,000 Hawaii residents.