Feb. 27—Less than a month after an arbitrator ruled that thousands of state workers were owed COVID-19 hazard pay for their efforts during the pandemic, the County of Maui settled a grievance with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hawaii is set to join a growing number of states in recognizing the dedication of its in-person state employees during the ...

Over four years after SARS-CoV-2’s debut, researchers still struggle to understand long COVID, including the ostensibly simple question of how many people have it. Estimates for its prevalence vary ...

In much of our country, the coronavirus pandemic is at a low ebb—at least in the minds of much of the public, amid everyday experience and commonplace images of people flooding back into public spaces ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that U.S. Bureau of Prisons employees cannot sue over the government’s denial of hazard pay benefits in connection with their work during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Honolulu City Council Chair Tommy Waters is urging the city administration to provide hazard pay to city employees who worked during the COVID pandemic. That compensation would ...

The union representing Kauai Police Department officers reached a settlement agreement with the county over COVID-19 hazard pay with initial payouts of approximately $20,000 coming in the next four to ...

NEW YORK — The COVID-19 infection rate at the troubled Rikers Island jail is rising at an alarming daily rate among largely unvaccinated inmates amid a citywide surge, the city Department of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- COVID-19 continues to mutate leaving us all more susceptible, and new data is showing just that. According to the CDC, California's wastewater has reached a "very high" level for ...

“I can't express enough how dangerous it is in a dental office right now, we have the ability to be asymptomatic and spread this to other people as much as we're looking out for our own safety,” said ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. In an email to SHOPO’s Kauai chapter members obtained by ...