Hawaii Emergency Management Agency

The state is working on fire mitigation efforts like grass management, installing more remote weather stations for monitoring and urging the residents to be mindful of actions that could spark fires.

Measures aiming to improve language access in Hawai‘i passed their final reading in the House and Senate on Wednesday. The bills will head to the governor’s office for final approval.

The Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency in February requested that FEMA extend the non-congregate sheltering program. FEMA agreed but said the costs for meals would no longer be reimbursable. That’s why the state will now only be offering dinner. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports.

The state has a new plan to move displaced Maui residents sheltering in hotels into more permanent housing. HPR's Ashley Mizuo explains how the state plans to reach its goal of having families out of temporary housing by May.

Ready for an earthquake drill? A global one? That's what will happen at 10:20 a.m. on Thursday. Here in the islands, it’s being billed as the Great Hawaiʻi ShakeOut. Thousands have signed up so far locally.

The Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency teamed up with architecture students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to create a prototype of a temporary shelter called Wiki Hale.

Hurricane season officially started Wednesday. Meteorologists predict a below-average season with only two to four tropical cyclones for the Central Pacific region. But the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency is asking residents to make preparations in the event that a hurricane, or another extreme weather event, hits the state.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is sending a larger COVID-19 team to the Big Island Thursday to help contain the coronavirus outbreak at the Yukio…

Hawai?i needs to import 3,000 tons of food per day to keep grocery store shelves stocked around the state. All of those goods come into one place: the…

On Tuesday, Governor David Ige released a road map for reforming the Hawai?i Emergency Management Agency. Failures of management, protocol, an technology…