Being a punk in Hawaiʻi is a hard-knock life. Just ask Shawn “Speedy” Lopes. It's been his life and includes getting jumped outside of bars. Now it's the subject of a new book.

Christa Seidl is with the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project. She was a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz when she started analyzing blood samples for more than 4,000 birds across the state. HPR spoke to Seidl about what she found.

The coalition has three demands for state lawmakers: pass this legislative session’s good government bills, end private campaign financing, and create a new, comprehensive public funding system.

The global trade system is facing a week of uncertainty when it comes to tariffs. And that's especially true when it comes to Asia. HPR's Bill Dorman has more.

Nearly 2,000 volunteers recently gathered at a fishpond in windward Oʻahu to completely fill in the 1.3-mile circle wall that encloses the pond. As Carrie Ching writes for HPR, give to the land and sea and the land and sea give back to you.

Players faced off around an antique kōnane board earlier this month that had been used more than a century ago. Kapena Baptista went home with the win and a replica of the museum’s rare board.

Scott Amendola and Wil Blades have graced Hawaiʻi stages separately, but the duo returns to the islands for one show only at Blue Note Hawaiʻi on Tuesday night. HPR's Lillian Tsang spoke to them ahead of the show.

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaiʻi to demand better wages and staffing. The union said in a statement Monday that "significant movement at the bargaining table" prompted an end to the walkout.

While the eastbound extensions of the rail are more highly anticipated, a short segment extending the west side of the rail further into Kapolei could be an easier job.

House lawmakers have advanced a measure that would subsidize home insurance for low-income families in lava zones on Hawaiʻi Island.