Honolulu HI Today Governor Abercrombie and the Hawai i Department of Health formally requested federal assistance with response to the molasses spill Senator Schatz has mobilized the federal response from agencies including NOAA the EPA and the United...

Washington DC The U S Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is sending two on scene coordinators to Oahu to assist the State in its response to the spill of an estimated 224 000 gallons of molasses on Sunday After several conversat...

Washington DC Today Senator Brian Schatz released the following statement on the 12th anniversary of the September 11th attacks On this day twelve years ago our world fundamentally changed forever Today and every September 11th we remember the hor...

Washington DC Today President Obama nominated Deputy Director of the Hawai i Department of Land and Natural Resources Esther Kia aina for the position of Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas at the Department of the Interior The U S Department of the...

Washington DC The Hawai i Department of Defense will receive a grant worth 872 075 from the U S Commerce Department s National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIA under the State and Local Implementation Grant Program SLIGP progra...

Washington DC Today Senator Brian Schatz lauded the selection of Hawai i as the host of the 48th Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum Telecommunications and Information Working Group APEC TEL 48 I am pleased that the Asia Pacific ...

Today Senator Brian Schatz announced seven grants from the Federal Aviation Administration FAA and the Federal Transit Administration FTA totaling more than 23 million for Hawai i including funding for airport projects in Honolulu Kaunakakai and La...

Honolulu HI Today the U S Navy s Office of Naval Research announced that it will invest 30 million in Hawaii based Energy Excelerator an energy startup program that aims to help companies bring innovative energy solutions to the marketplace thereby ...

Honolulu HI Today Senator Brian Schatz released the following statement I have weighed the expert briefings and analysis and listened closely to the people of Hawaii Though all of us are outraged by the Assad regime s use of chemical weapons I ha...

Honolulu HI Today Senator Brian Schatz announced that TSA is expanding its PreCheck Program in Hawai i Kahului Airport Kona International Airport and Lihue Airport will be added to the list of airports with a TSA PreCheck option Additionally the num...