HONOLULU In response to Donald Trump s suggestion that the United States ban immigrants from a number of countries including the Philippines U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i issued the following statement Donald Trump s latest rant suggesting w...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today welcomed 3 7 million in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC to support the Hawai i State Department of Health s epidemiological and laboratory capacity to respond to publ...

Florida health officials have identified 10 more cases of locally transmitted Zika in the Miami area That means as of Monday there are 14 known cases of the virus caused by mosquitoes in the continental U S That s not counting thehundreds of such cases...

Florida s governor says the state has concluded that four mysterious Zika infections likely came from mosquitoes in the Miami area Gov Rick Scott said Friday that no mosquitoes in the state have tested positive for Zika But he says one woman a...

The leaders of the United States Canada and Mexico will pledge on Wednesday that by 2025 half of their overall electricity generation will come from clean power sources according to administration officials The commitment which will be a joi...

HONOLULU President Barack Obama has signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act CARA into law which includes a provision co authored by U S Senators Brian Schatz D Hawai i and Orrin Hatch R Utah The Schatz Hatch legislation titled the Sa...

HONOLULU U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i issued the following statement on the passing of U S Representative Mark Takai This is the deepest of losses and one that I feel very personally because of my friendship with Mark Throughout his life h...

Last month wasn t just the hottest June on record it continued the longest ever streak of record breaking months 14 The start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere gave us the hottest June since 1880 according to data released Tuesday by the Nat...

Merrick Garland hit an unwanted milestone on Tuesday as the federal appeals court judge s nomination to the U S Supreme Court reached its 125th day with no Senate action tying for the longest pending nomination ever to the high court In a move...

HONOLULU At the invitation of U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA and the Fish and Wildlife Service FWS will conduct public meetings to accept comments on Senator Schatz s proposal to expand t...