WASHINGTON Today President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to two U S Army soldiers from Hawai i Staff Sergeant Edward N Kaneshiro posthumous and Specialist Five Dennis M Fujii They were selected for the Medal of Honor as the U S military c...

U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawaii took a tour Thursday of the YWCA of Hawaii Island Developmental Preschool in Hilo During his visit Schatz met with YWCA of Hawaii Island CEO Kathleen McGilvray and interacted with teachers and students ...

HILO U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on the Department of Defense s plan to defuel and shut down the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility Defueling and shutting down Red Hill cannot be delayed If t...

WASHINGTON U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i today released the following statement on the U S Supreme Court s decision to overturn Roe v Wade The Republican controlled Supreme Court has ripped away abortion rights from millions of Amer...

Hawaii s congressional delegation reacted swiftly to today s release of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs Wade the nearly 50 year old court precedent legalizing abortion The delegation all Democrats decried the ruling and condemne...

When the U S federal government began its Indian Boarding School Initiative in the mid 19th century the goal was clear to erase Indigenous cultures through a process of forced assimilation Now the head of the Department of the Interior hopes...

U S Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz held a hearing Wednesday on the next steps following the U S Interior Department s report on Indian boarding schools The report released in May confirmed that forced assimilation of Indige...

WASHINGTON Today the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced it has allocated 22 3 million in Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant funding to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands U S Senator Brian Schatz D Hawai i who serve...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Wednesday outlined the next steps her department has planned to address the legacy of abuses at government run schools for Indigenous children and legislation to examine the matter Haaland the first Indigenous ...

A congressional hearing on the abuses at the federal Indian boarding school system drew emotional testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill a call for more to be done to unearth the abuses against native children The unprecedented hearing comes afte...