2026 in Hawaii
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Events
- January 23 – Federal officials grant a request to extend housing assistance to survivors of the 2023 Hawaiʻi wildfires until February 2027.[1]
- March 21 – 230 people are rescued, ten of whom are hospitalized for hypothermia, during floods and storms. Around 5,500 people are evacuated ahead of a second storm.[2]
- March 25 – The city of Honolulu agrees to pay $975,000 in a settlement to a homeless man who was forcibly institutionalized for two years after being mistaken for another man with an arrest warrant.[3]
- March 27 – Three people are killed in a helicopter crash at Kalalau Beach on Kauaʻi.[4][5]
- April 23 – Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke announces she is taking an indefinite unpaid leave of absence amid a bribery investigation.[6]
Predicted and scheduled
- April 22 – Hawaiian Airlines officially joins the Oneworld member alliance.
- November 3 –
Deaths
- April 19 – George Ariyoshi, 100, Governor of Hawaiʻi (1974–1986) and first U.S. governor of Asian-American descent (b. 1926)[8][9]
