The 2026 Tiny Desk Contest, our annual search for the next great undiscovered artist, is now officially open for entries.

Amy Miller and Liz Borowiec of the EPA Region 9 Office spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the agency’s role in converting large-capacity cesspools in Hawaiʻi.

Last month, videos surfaced of two parents heckling a referee at a Moanalua High School boys basketball game that led to a school official being knocked out. The incident resulted in the state Department of Education permanently banning the parents from all public school properties.

The declaration forms are meant to identify unwanted plant or animal material brought into Hawaiʻi — an effort to reduce the likelihood of invasive species arriving and establishing on the islands.

Kūpuna from the Keaʻau Community Center will take weekly cooking classes with recipes chosen by Keaʻau High School agriculture students.

The rally also focused on an investigation to identify a Hawaiʻi lawmaker who is accused of accepting $35,000 in 2022. The allegation came to light during the federal bribery investigation into former state Rep. Ty Cullen and Sen. Kalani English.

About 430 state correctional officer positions are vacant, DCR said in a state budget informational briefing Thursday — despite the department’s efforts to better advertise those jobs.

Five decades ago, a group of Hawaiian activists landed on Kahoʻolawe in an attempt to stop the U.S. military’s bombing of the island. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol sat down with Molokaʻi’s Walter Ritte and shares his memories of that decisive movement.

The kitchen in central Oʻahu’s Whitmore Village will be a hub where school meal ingredients can be prepared and shipped to each school for storage and heating when appropriate.

The University of Hawaiʻi has made progress in developing artificial intelligence as an area of study — and an asset to use at the school. This coming year, UH is putting more focus on technology to reach more students in the Islands.