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Catherine Cluett Pactol/HPRExposure to post-flooding mud and possible leptospirosis led HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol to share what she’s learned about the bacterial disease, and the challenges of diagnosis and testing. -
Photo by Lang Creative MediaNearly 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.
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Hanzawa’s is one of the oldest surviving mom and pop plantation-era stores on Maui — along with Morihara’s in Kula and Hasegawa’s in Hāna. These dusty old stores with fading paint and vintage signs are so much more than convenience stores. Their creaking walls tell stories of Hawaiʻi’s past — stories that can help us understand Hawaiʻi’s present. -
In this essay for HPR, Carrie Ching muses about Maui's relationship with tourism against the backdrop, literally and figuratively, of a towering cruise ship in Kahului — the tallest building in town while in port. -
In this special essay for HPR, Ellen Massey writes about being part of a statewide mission to fly tens of thousands of pounds of donated supplies to Lahaina in the weeks after the devastating 2023 fires.
