Pacific Whale Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect the ocean through science and advocacy and inspire environmental stewardship, invites cinema lovers to PWF’s 7th Annual World Whale Film Festival fundraiser. The festival kicks off June 8, 2023, in honor of World Ocean Day.
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An Alaska Airlines jet makes its final approach to Kahului Airport in 2016. A jury in King County, Washington state, has ordered the airline to pay $3.2 million to a Maui family who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
A jury in Washington state has ordered Alaska Airlines to pay $3.2 million to the family of Bernice Kekona, a Kahakuloa woman who died just months after falling down an escalator in her wheelchair at the Portland International Airport in 2017.
The two-week jury trial by Zoom came to an end Monday, a little over three years after the Kekona family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in King County Superior Court in Seattle.