DCCA NEWS RELEASE: DON’T LET SCAMMERS STEAL YOUR HOLIDAY SPIRIT Thursday, December 18, 2025 08:55 AM from Office of the Governor STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIAʻĀINA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS KA ʻOIHANA PILI KĀLEPA NADINE Y. ANDO […]
DHS REMINDS HOUSEHOLDS TO USE THE $250 HEFAP FOOD SUPPORT FUNDS BEFORE YEAR-END Wednesday, December 17, 2025 03:44 PM from Department of Human Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 17, 2025 HONOLULU — The Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services (DHS) is reminding households to use their Hawaiʻi Emergency Food Assistance Program (HEFAP) benefits before they expire on December 31, 2025. Families who received the $250 per person HEFAP benefit, which appears on their EBT card and is separate from regular […]
NEWS RELEASE: Hawaiʻi’s Minimum Wage Increases to $16.00 on January 1 Monday, December 15, 2025 03:30 PM from Office of the Governor STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIAʻĀINA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS KA ʻOIHANA PONO LIMAHANA JADE T. BUTAY DIRECTOR […]
COMMENCEMENT FOR FIRST HĀLAWA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY INMATE TO EARN AA DEGREE FROM WINDWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE Monday, December 15, 2025 09:37 AM from Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ‘AIEA, Hawai’i — The Hālawa Correctional Facility (HCF) hosted a commencement ceremony Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, for inmate Temauraʻi Border who earned an associate of arts degree in liberal arts from Windward Community College (WCC). Border, 27, is the first HCF inmate to earn an AA degree from WCC while in custody. Grateful, Border thanked […]
WINTER WONDERLAND KEIKI DAY EVENT REUNITES INCARCARCERATED MEN WITH THEIR CHILDREN Sunday, December 14, 2025 09:20 AM from Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation HONOLULU — On a rainy Sunday morning at the Waiawa Correctional Facility, the eight-year-old son of inmate Deonimar Dacanay ran toward his father as soon as he walked into the Christmas-decorated Quonset hut. The child tiptoed as he wrapped his arms around Dacanay. With a huge smile, the father held his child as Dacanay’s 16-year-old […]
FIRST CAREER FAIR AT OCCC FOR WORK FURLOUGH INMATES Friday, December 12, 2025 05:57 PM from Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation HONOLULU — The O’ahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) Laumaka Work Furlough Center hosted its first ever career fair for over 20 work furlough inmates Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to help them prepare for reintegration into the community. The facility collaborated with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (DCR) Hawaiʻi Correctional Industries and Reentry Coordination Office […]
GRADUATION CEREMONY AT WOMEN’S COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER FOR CULINARY ARTS AND GED PROGRAMS Thursday, December 11, 2025 05:51 PM from Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation HONOLULU — The Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) hosted a graduation ceremony Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, for five women who earned their GED from the Department of Education’s McKinley Community School for Adults (MCSA), as well as for six women who earned a certificate from the Kapiʻolani Community College (KCC) Culinary Arts Program. WCCC Warden […]
