The Kauaʻi Medical Training Track at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine welcomed its fourth cohort of students into its program, which aims to improve healthcare in Kauaʻi’s rural areas while also training future physicians.

Nancy Holman, superintendent of the National Park at Kalaupapa on Molokaʻi, spoke to HPR's Catherine Cruz about the reopening of tours to the historic settlement created for Hansen’s disease patients.

The order from Friday stems from the state Board of Land and Natural Resources renewing four revocable permits in 2020 that allowed developer Alexander & Baldwin and its subsidiary, East Maui Irrigation, to divert the water for a year.

A Native Hawaiian nonprofit has successfully preserved Hawaiʻi Island land for generations to come. ‘Anaeho‘omalu Kapalaoa, a 27-acre plot of land in Waikoloa Resort, will now be permanently protected by Nā ‘Ōiwi O Pu‘uanahulu, a Native Hawaiian descendant-led nonprofit.

The 21st annual cleanup of coastal areas in Lahaina will be held on Sept. 27 and highlights student volunteerism. Volunteers will pick up rubbish along seven square miles of highway and Lahaina coastline in what organizers call the longest-running annual cleanup in the state.

Hawai'i Organics Compost on Maui is the island's largest facility of its kind. It has a goal of keeping green waste out of the landfill and using local landscaping resources

A former settlement for people with Hansen's disease on Molokaʻi that’s been closed to tours and religious pilgrimages is reopening this month. Kalaupapa National Historical Park says it was closed since the COVID-19 pandemic because the disease posed a threat to its last remaining elderly patients.

Maui community members are calling for changes to homeless encampment sweeps. Maui County lawmakers this week shelved Bill 111, which proposed a more "empathetic" approach to relocating homeless individuals in encampments on county land.

Some Molokaʻi families living off the electric grid are getting a major upgrade through a local program. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol has the story.

Mafalda de Freitas, megaplastics program director at the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaiʻi Pacific University, talks about Hawaiʻi's only marine debris recycling center; Donor Mariel Tadena, stem cell recipient Nicole Fabela, and Erika Sevilla, spokesperson for the National Marrow Donor Program, share their stem cell story