State Sen. Tim Richards has an idea for a new hydropower project. He pitched it to the attendees at a Waimea community town hall meeting last week.

Fifty trucks will spend five months hauling Lahaina wildfire debris to a landfill in the center of Maui starting next Monday. Maui County says there's enough debris to fill five football fields five stories high.

Bill 47 is a partial revival of a set of measures that failed last year that would have overhauled zoning and operational laws on “transient vacation rentals” in the County of Hawaiʻi.

One of 25 shelters across the country, Maui Humane Society was chosen to pilot a project that helps reunite lost pets with their families.

Hawaiʻi Island lawmakers passed a $950 million budget for the county, but denied a last-minute amendment to spend $2 million on food security programs. The administration says no plan was attached to that funding, leading the council to vote against the amendment five to three.

Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia have left on their voyage to circumnavigate the Pacific. But another traditional double-hulled canoe is making a month-long tour closer to home. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol has more on the journey of the Iosepa.

Kaiser Permanente is expanding its operations on Maui by buying a property next door to its Wailuku clinic. But that purchase will have a direct impact on the Valley Isle's oldest continuously published newspaper. We get more on that story from Pacific Business News Editor-in-Chief Janis Magin.

After uncertainty regarding federal funding cuts, the Head Start program has received the federal funds needed to open this school year in nine locations across Maui County, operated by Maui Economic Opportunity.

On Tuesday the council voted on a final version of Bill 41, which details a county budget that’s about $46 million bigger than what Mayor Richard Bissen initially proposed in March.

The lava flows remained quiet at Kīlauea on Tuesday morning, but recent spectacular eruptions have highlighted a new challenge. As the summer visitor season gets into full swing, changes are on the way to solve traffic gridlock. HPR contributor Betsy Brown has more from Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island.