Hawaiʻi Agriculture and Biosecurity officials discuss the challenges the department faces and the criticisms it's received ...

Adding housing for residents dominated County of Maui Mayor Richard Bissen’s latest State of the County address.

The Senate is attempting to recoup funds by reducing sweeping income tax cuts that went into effect last year and by ...

Hawaiʻi keiki could start building their own libraries at home through a new bill that would establish the “Imagination Library." ...

California has detected its first cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in marine mammals. Marine veterinarians in ...

The number of visitors from Japan is still only about half of the 1.5 million that came before the COVID-19 pandemic. But numbers only tell part of the story.

A planned food storage and distribution facility for Maui Food Bank is one step closer to reality. HPR’s Catherine Cluett ...

Hanabusa was first elected to the Hawaiʻi Senate in 1998 and served in the upper chamber through 2010, including a stint as the first woman Senate president. She went on to win one of Hawaiʻi's two ...

Army Maj. Gen. Lance Okamura shares a recent ceremony and exercise that was held at Kolekole Pass to test the road's function as an emergency evacuation route.

Kauaʻi Councilmember Fern Holland shares updates and information she gathered about an immigration raid she witnessed in her ...

HPR sits down with playwright Ikaika Mendez and lead actress Waileia Tupou to discuss "Lele Wale," a new play about a community's resilience after the Lahaina wildfires.

A universal school meals program has been proposed at the Legislature before, and itʻs usually met with pushback from state Department of Education officials due to concerns about the logistics and ...