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Hawai‘i will host the world’s largest celebration of Indigenous Pacific Islanders for the first time in June. It's only three weeks away and officials are still looking for a handful of volunteers.
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Savannah Gankiewicz of Hawaiʻi has been crowned Miss USA 2023, more than a week after the previous titleholder resigned citing her mental health. Gankiewicz, a model who leads a female empowerment nonprofit, will hold the title until August — the remainder of the pageant's term.
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The federal lawsuit filed in March alleged that making applicants wait so long was the city's way of keeping the permitting process as restrictive as it was before a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upended gun laws nationwide.
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The families of five Hawaiʻi men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.
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Local health officials say testing on West Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires.
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Nalani Jenkins, Lehua Kalima and Angela Morales of Na Leo Pilimehana are spending this year giving back to the community that embraced their talent at an early age.
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This Mother's Day, many will celebrate by going out to brunch or dinner. Istanbul Hawaii on Oʻahu is one restaurant that expects to serve the Sunday Mother's Day crowd. It's owned by the mother-daughter team Nili Yildirim and Ahu Hettema.
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Condominium residents of the Courtyards at Waipouli Apartments on Kauaʻi are concerned that they will be displaced once the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands acquires the property.
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The state will continue to see economic growth, but at a slower pace compared to previous years, according to the latest forecast from the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization, or UHERO.
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Hawaiian Electric has rebuilt a backup power line to West Maui that can feed electricity to about 11,000 people. The line serves as a redundancy in case one of the other lines or circuits goes out of service.
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Interim housing developments taking shape on Maui offer a sense of hope to fire survivors. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol spoke with one family who just moved into their new modular home. But no matter where fire survivors find housing, there's no place like home.
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Hawai‘i has seen an uptick in its nursing workforce, according to a 2023 Nursing Workforce Supply Report released this week.