A Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) analysis of vaccine breakthrough data found COVID-19 vaccines provide excellent protection against hospitalization and death. A vaccine breakthrough infection occurs when a fully vaccinated person tests positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Individuals are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing their initial vaccine series. Hawaiʻi data on deaths that occurred from January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 found that fully vaccinated... Read More

The city’s Motor Vehicle Control Section has big hopes of renewing enthusiasm for its free offer to accept unwanted vehicles across O‘ahu. The city’s free Junked Vehicle Program took in 889 unwanted cars from owners who surrendered them last year, down sharply from 1,599 the previous year. The program is critical to ongoing efforts to reduce the number of abandoned vehicles in the City and County of Honolulu, where about 1... Read More

Following the recent completion of parking lot rehabilitation projects at Pōka‘ī Bay Beach Park, Kea‘au Beach Park, and Waimānalo District Park, additional repaving efforts are scheduled to begin next week for more City park locations in country neighborhoods. This second round of parking lot and roadway repaving is scheduled to begin on the Shark’s Cove-side of Pūpūkea Beach Park on the North Shore next week, progress to Hale‘iwa Beach Park then... Read More

This October, the Department of Facility Maintenance (DFM) Storm Water Quality (SWQ) Division celebrated Make a Difference Month with educational activities for keiki, cleanups throughout O‘ahu, a virtual Imagine a Day Without Water event, and the launch of its new storm drain marking map. Nearly 500 volunteers worked across O‘ahu throughout October to mark over 400 storm drains with a “No Dumping, Drains to Ocean” message and remove more than 13... Read More

Following a weekend celebrating Arbor Day in Hawaiʻi, the Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation’s Division of Urban Forestry (DUF) is proud to announce a new partnership with the School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability (SEEQS) to plant and care for native plants and trees at Lili‘uokalani Botanical Garden near Downtown Honolulu. Today three dozen SEEQS keiki and teachers joined botanical garden staff to plant a wide variety of native... Read More

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) informs Kauai highway users of a single lane closure on Kaumualii Highway (Route 50) between Kipu Road Maluhia Road on Monday, Nov. 15 through Tuesday, Nov. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for brush clearing. The single lane closure with alternating traffic control was originally scheduled for Nov. 8 through Nov. 10. HDOT postponed the work to allow the community additional time to prepare... Read More

The City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Transportation Services is hosting an online community meeting for the Ke‘eaumoku Complete Streets Project on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Complete Streets is the City’s policy to design streets for all roadways users. Ke‘eaumoku Street provides mauka-makai connections between Makiki, Ala Moana, and the future Honolulu Rail Transit station. The purpose of this project is to implement critical... Read More

An estimated 84 percent of O‘ahu motorists now have a travel-compliant Real ID driver’s license to board a domestic flight. Of the 638,026 state-issued driver’s licenses in the City and County of Honolulu, 533,287 have secured Real ID status with the small star inside a gold circle in the upper right hand corner. Put another way, only about 16 percent of driver’s licenses on O‘ahu are not ready for the full... Read More