OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 30 -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts issued the following news release: Alastair McAlpine has been appointed General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Osaka, the newest addition to the Japan portfolio of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Located across ten floors of the high-rise One Dojima Project in the commercial centre of Osaka, the Hotel is scheduled to open in August 2024. Arriving from Lanai island in Hawaii, where he served as General Manager at Four Seasons Resort Lanai  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 29 -- The Hawaii Department of Transportation issued the following news on Dec. 28, 2023: The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) announces the following changes in parking rates for Kahului Airport (OGG), Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole (KOA), Hilo International Airport (ITO), and Lihue Airport (LIH) will take effect on February 1, 2024. OGG/KOA/ITO/LIH rates up to Jan. 31, 2024 ... OGG/KOA/ITO/LIH rates beginning Feb. 1, 2024 Hourly Rate .  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 29 -- The Hawaii Department of Transportation issued the following news: The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) provides an update on improvement projects scheduled through 2024 on the Windward side of Oahu. These projects include Pali Highway Slope Stabilization, the Kamehameha Highway Paving project, Kalanianaole Highway Resurfacing Project, Kaipapau Bridge Replacement Project, Kahekili Roundabout Project, and Likelike Highway Pavement Preservation Project. See   more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 22 -- Gov. Josh Green, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: In the first round of the program, the state's brand new Hawai'i Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program (HELP) is alleviating the educational debt of 492 medical and healthcare professionals. To ease the shortages of physicians and other health care professionals by retaining those who already practice in Hawai'i and recruiting those who are in medical residency training programs on the continent, t  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Dec. 28 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: A record $3.5-million gift to the University of Hawaii at Manoa from the Barbara Barnard Smith Foundation will fund the music department's first-ever endowed chair. The newly established Professor Barbara Barnard Smith Endowed Chair supports the university's desire and commitment to revitalize its ethnomusicology program and honors the legacy of the late revered UH Manoa professor who died in 2021  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Dec. 28 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: Aloha Airlines was known at one time in Hawaii as "The People's Airline" and served the state from 1946-2008. A collection of Aloha Airline uniforms were donated to the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Fashion and Design Merchandising (FDM) program for research and to preserve the history of the airlines.The collection tells a 60-year histo  more