Lori Kahikina will continue serving as the head of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation — and will do so with a sizable raise. Her current contract was set to expire at the end of the year.

It has been a hot summer, and limited water resources are becoming an issue in parts of Maui. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol has more.

A feature-length documentary about the origins of the shaka will premiere at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival next month.

When the COVID-19 pandemic put the world on lockdown, it gave a group of Hawaiʻi musicians time to study Queen Liliʻuokalani's songbook and record themselves playing classical instruments. The musicians performed a series of the queen's songs last week. HPR's Cassie Ordonio has more.

About three dozen backpackers on the famous trail and the beach have reported norovirus illnesses to the state Department of Health.

The Conversation talked with former labor leader J.N. Musto about the changing labor landscape. He was with the University of Hawaiʻi Professional Assembly, the faculty union, for more than three-and-a-half decades.

The Honolulu City Council wants weekly testing of monitoring and drinking water wells following the 2021 leak at the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.

A U.S. appeals court ruling says Hawaiʻi can enforce a law banning firearms on its world-famous beaches, but not at other so-called sensitive places, including banks.

Carl Bonham, a council member and economist, said Maui tourism will end the year strongly as it begins to recover from last year’s fires.

The Second Annual Megabon starts at 4 p.m. Saturday in the lower Hālawa parking lot of Aloha Stadium. The event is free and open to all.