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The Sustainable Hawaii Youth leadership Initiative’s spring break in the workplace featured future engineers, a prospective lawmaker and an aspiring journalist.

There are opportunities to achieve efficiencies, but a legislator’s attempt to cut small programs was ham-handed.

The head of a major land company will head the search for someone to turn around a program that is $3.5 million in the hole.

UH agreed with many recommendations, but disputed the state auditor’s call to repeal six of the 65 funds reviewed.

School officials are asking lawmakers for millions in taxpayer money over the next two years to cover increased operating costs.

This week’s photographs include scenes from the University of Hawaii football team’s home finale, pre-holiday visits to a food bank and the rail project as it reaches the highway.

Jennifer Sabas, the late U.S. Sen. Dan Inouye’s former chief of staff, will try to use her influence to scrape up more money for the university.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s nominations for the vacant regents seats also include a Kauai health officer, a former Hawaii County councilman and a field rep for Sen. Brian Schatz.

The White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign enlists students from nearly 200 colleges and universities across the country to engage their peers and communities in preventing sexual assaults on campus.

Four former regents vacated the seats in response to a new law requiring members on the university’s governing board to submit public financial disclosure statements.