A conference this week in Tokyo on ocean planning and management is drawing leaders from more than two-dozen island countries. Itʻs being led by the head of a Pacific Island nation. HPR's Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News Minute.

The Hawaiʻi Foodbank, the state Department of Education, and community partners are launching their summer programs to keep families fed.

University of Hawaiʻi computer scientist Kim Binsted talks about the the HI-SEAS program on Maunaloa, which simulates missions to the moon and to Mars.

The Polynesian voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia have been in New Zealand since November and were supposed to leave for Tonga in May.

While money was tight at the state Legislature this year, it was still another successful year for local agriculture and food security.

If you've ever felt that visiting a museum is good for you, you may be onto something. And there's now scientific evidence to back that up. HPR's Bill Dorman has more in todayʻs Asia Minute.

Recent allegations against César Chavez have sparked a renewed focus on Filipino contributions to the U.S. farmworker movement. Lawyers in Hawaiʻi are highlighting Pablo Manlapit, Hawaiʻi's first Filipino lawyer, who organized plantation workers for equal pay and an eight-hour workday.

Prosecutors say the killings of three men on Hawaiʻi Island were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.” Jacob Baker has been charged with murder in the deaths of three men over the age of 60.