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For the first time in more than 30 years, the latte stones are making a public appearance at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. They've lived in the museum for over a century since researchers took the cultural relics from across the Pacific Ocean to expand the museum's collection. HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports.
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The nearly $3.4 billion dry dock modernization project at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is spurring creative thinking to fill the engineering jobs needed over the next several years.
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The Conversation learns about an effort to map World War II shipwrecks in Micronesia — boats that ended up on the ocean floor as payback for the Pearl Harbor bombing. Archeology professor William Jeffery of the University of Guam has more.
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Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam are vowing to bring to justice those who fatally shot a Korean visitor in a tourist district. KUAM-TV reports the shooting occurred when the traveler and his wife were walking toward a hotel on Guam’s popular Tumon Bay from a nearby beach on Thursday evening.
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Guam native Craig Santos Perez is the first Pacific Islander to win the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry — and the first Pacific Islander to win in any category. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz talked to the author about what that win meant not just to him as a Chamorro, but to a culture often overlooked.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially declared two Guam native species extinct. HPR's Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News Minute.
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Julian Aguon, a native of Guam, is using his skills as a writer and a lawyer to tackle issues of environmental justice — tangled in complicated political history. He's in Honolulu as a featured speaker at the University of Hawaiʻi’s Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.
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In the aftermath of Typhoon Mawar, a critically endangered bird faces extinction on Guam. The ko'ko' bird now "teeters on the brink" with just 74 left on the island, according to the animal welfare organization American Humane.
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Typhoon Mawar passed north of Guam as a Category 4 typhoon on May 24, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain. More than 90 percent of the island lost power, water, and phone service following the storm.
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The City and County of Honolulu is sending personnel and equipment to Guam to help the island recover from Typhoon Mawar