Dane Lam was hired in 2023 as the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra's first music director. Without this extension, his contract would have expired in 2028.

Politics has spilled into tourism for two of the largest economies in the Asia Pacific. HPR's Bill Dorman has the details in today's Asia Minute.

Hawaiʻi Appleseed recommended that the Honolulu City Council work on four areas to improve food security on Oʻahu: disaster planning, summer feeding programs for children, kūpuna programs, and direct funding for food banks.

Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden will be periodically closed from Nov. 24 to Dec. 19 for road repairs.

Young ʻuaʻu kani, or shearwater birds, tend to take their first flights away from their nests between September and December. They learn to fly toward the light of the moon and stars, but the increase in artificial lights, especially on Oʻahu, has caused the baby birds to be misled on their flight paths.

Samoa's prime minister has banned the country's only daily newspaper from his press conferences. HPR's Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News Minute.

Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Executive Vice President Joe Kent spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the new AI tool called Open Hearings.

A. Kam Napier, the editor-in-chief of Aloha State Daily, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about an AI transcription gone wrong.

Kim-Anh Nguyen, the CEO of the Blood Bank of Hawaii, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about the challenges of meeting the demand for all blood types.

The Honolulu City Council Budget Committee advanced a bill Tuesday to try and make an unused affordable housing program more attractive to landlords.