Media Releases

The Hawaiian homestead community of Waimanalo celebrated the blessing of their new Community Technology, Education and Employment Center earlier this week.

Federal funds supporting affordable housing for Native Hawaiians should continue to flow, according to a vote today by the U.S. House of Representatives on a bill reauthorizing the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act or NAHASDA.

On Friday, March 6th the State Senate unanimously confirmed  Jobie M. K. Masagatani as Chair of the Hawaiian Homes Commission and Director of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is alerting residents and motorists of a single-lane road closure along Kawaihae Road at the South Kohala Distribution Road intersection beginning Tuesday, Feb. 17 through Thursday, Feb. 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., for utility installations.

aniel Pelekane-Tamashiro is the newest member of Hawaiʻi's oldest Hawaiian homestead, Kalamaʻula on Molokaʻi.