UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn was arrested and charged with third-degree assault this week. Penn is scheduled to make an initial court appearance on Dec. 2 in Hilo District Court. This is Penn's sixth arrest of the year.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation has requested a full waiver from the air traffic reduction at all Hawaiʻi airports. If it’s granted, the state says it will pay for the essential staff needed to maintain full flight schedules.

There’s something new coming to Maui. The island’s first rock climbing gym is just weeks from opening and HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol got an early peek to show us the ropes.

This comes amid continued uncertainty of benefit distribution for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.

News anchor and filmmaker David Ono spoke with HPR’s Russell Subiono about his multimedia documentary on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion called “Defining Courage.”

The state Board of Education has approved a four-year contract for current Superintendent Keith Hayashi that represents an 18% raise, plus performance-based incentives.

Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority’s Chief Administrative Officer David Uchiyama spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz about the potential cuts to flights at Honolulu's Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is being sued by its own CEO, Stacy Ferreira, two months after she was placed on administrative leave.

The King Kamehameha Celebration Commission is worried that the crumbling infrastructure surrounding the statue is a safety hazard for visitors and people celebrating King Kamehameha Day.

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates. That's according to a study by University of Hawaiʻi researchers that's out Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.