Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka

06/08/2022

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed nine bills into law supporting veterans care initiatives, including one that would name a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic planned for West Oahu after the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka.

“Danny was a great friend, he was an Army veteran in World War II and a former chair of the Committee on Veterans Affairs,” Biden said during the signing ceremony. “One of the finest people I ever served with, he really was a man of great honor and integrity.”

The Advanced Leeward Outpatient Healthcare Access Clinic — better known as the ALOHA Clinic — was a pet project of Akaka’s during his time as a U.S. senator. It will be the first new major VA project of its size in Hawaii since the Spark Matsunaga VA Ambulatory Care Clinic opened at Tripler Army Medical Center in 2000.

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President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed nine bills into law supporting veterans care initiatives, including one that would name a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic planned for West Oahu after the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka.

05/31/2021

Senator Akaka's widow Millie and his son Danny Jr attended the groundbreaking of the Daniel Akaka Veterans' Care Home in Kapolei. With Gov. David Ige standing between them.

Photo courtesy: Rep. Amy Perruso

04/08/2021

Hawaii’s congressional delegation announced plans to name the Advanced Leeward Outpatient Health Care Access, or “ALOHA” Project after the late Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka.

The facility is set to be completed by the fall of 2024.

05/13/2020

May 12, 2012 · Senator Akaka received his Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Hawaii - with his wife Millie. They were married for 69 years.

Congratulations to all the Class of 2020 graduates!

04/09/2020

Irene Hirano and Senator Inouye smiling with Vice President Biden at the Japanese Ambassador's residence in 2011

Vice President Joe Biden shares a laugh with Senators Dianne Feinstein, Akaka, and Richard Shelby.

04/09/2020

Rest in peace Irene Hirano Inouye. Here she is with Senator Akaka and the Hawaii Congressional Delegation and Honolulu city officials when they signed the full funding grant agreement for the Honolulu rail project in 2012.

The signing of the Full Funding Grant Agreement marks the final step of the FTA’s New Starts federal funding process for O'ahu’s new rail system and makes $200 million in federal funding available to the Honolulu rail project for fiscal year 2012. The full system is slated to be operational in 2019.

10/29/2019

A mura was dedicated at Kaneohe Elementary last year in honor of Senator Daniel Akaka, the first Senator of native Hawaiian ancestry who was also formerly the principal of the school.

Playground Art Crew, along with Pena People, received a grant from Hawai'i Feast to paint a mural at Kaneohe Elementary. We chose to paint Senator Daniel Akaka, the first Senator of native Hawaiian ancestry who was also formerly the principal of Kaneohe Elementary.

07/17/2018

Senator Akaka's family attended a dedication ceremony for the new Daniel K. Akaka Marine Highway.

The Hawaii Department of Transportation said the "naming honors Senator Akaka for his many years as an upstanding public servant to the people of Hawaii, his long-standing support of Hawaii’s maritime industry, and the time he spent working in Honolulu Harbor building the pier infrastructure during his service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s."

Video from KHON2 News:

The waterways around and between the Hawaiian Islands have been designated as Marine Highway MH1, and officially named the Daniel K. Akaka Marine Highway.

05/20/2018

05/20/2018

Celebration of Life

05/19/2018

Senator Akaka's sons (right to left) Gerard, Danny Jr., and Alan, perform with Brickwood Galuteria

05/19/2018

More from the Kamehameha Schools students honoring Senator Akaka with hula.