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The State Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) will hold public hearings to receive testimony on proposed updates to the State Water Projects Plan (SWPP). The SWPP identifies future water demands and source strategies for State water projects. This update of the SWPP focuses on water projects for the Department of Hawaiian Homelands.

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First phase of homestead subdivision will be home to 117 Hawaiian ohana

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MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Neil Abercrombie has announced the appointment of a new Director of the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL) and a change at the Public Safety Department (PSD). To begin the implementation phase of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), Governor Abercrombie will appoint Ted Sakai as the new Director for Public Safety, effective June […]

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A major year-long, $1.6 million construction project to install two offsite water transmission mains that will connect the new million-gallon reservoir on Kawaihae Road to the planned Department of Hawaiian Home Lands’ Lalamilo subdivision will be discussed.

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overnor Neil Abercrombie today announced the following appointments to the Abercrombie Administration: Michelle Kauhane as Deputy to the Chairman of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Jan Gouveia as Deputy Director of the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS)

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DHHL, Armstrong Builders celebrate new homesteaders moving into Villages of Lai Opua

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MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Linda Lingle has announced the Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Department of Accounting and General Services will conduct energy efficiency and renewable projects funded by more than $6 million in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds from the U.S. Department of Energy. […]

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A controlled brush fire scheduled to ake place tomorrow morning, Wednesday, Sept. 9, in an area above the intersection of Saddle Road and Mauna Kea Access Road, was postponed Wednesday. Fire officials said the controlled burn, designed to aid in gorse eradication as well as to test new techniques for brushfire fighting, has been postponed […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Linda Lingle has appointed Anita Seyer Wong as deputy to the chairman of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL). Wong has been with DHHL since 2007 handling complex assignments related to restructuring of development financing, legal coordination of housing contracts, as well as overseeing project managers for the department’s Land Development […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative continues to move forward with an agreement between the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui Electric Company and Hawaii Electric Light Company. The agreement will benefit Native Hawaiian homesteaders and support HCEI through the development of affordable, energy self-sufficient and sustainable communities. “This partnership is […]

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