HPR News Staff

A new $1 coin will feature a Native Hawaiian scholar that many credit for preserving and protecting ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. The U.S. Mint’s 2025 Native American coin features Mary Kawena Pukui — a scholar, author, composer, hula expert and educator.

A fifth person, 29-year-old Kevin Vallesteros, has died from injuries suffered during a massive explosion of illegal fireworks at an Āliamanu home over New Year’s Eve.

Over 400 volunteers for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary and the Pacific Whale Foundation scanned the ocean — many with binoculars — to spot the breaching creatures.

Honolulu police say that human remains discovered off a North Shore beach match the DNA of one of the two Mililani teens reported missing last week.

A multiagency search for two Mililani teens went missing off Ke Iki Beach on Oʻahu's North Shore was suspended Tuesday after four days. However, remains were found Saturday just off Ke Iki Beach. They were confirmed by the medical examiner to be human. Families have been notified.

Gov. Josh Green delivered his third State of the State address to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature on Tuesday morning. Read his full speech, as written before the address.

The search continues today for two teens who went missing in waters off Ke Iki Beach on Oʻahu's North Shore. ff Ke Iki Beach on Oʻahu's North Shore. Police said the teens were last seen Friday night at a Mililani convenience store.

A detection in a sample collected on Dec. 11 was so low that it wasn’t considered a positive. Samples collected on Dec. 18 and Jan. 8 also had similar low detections.

Gov. Josh Green announced the nomination of Honolulu Police Department Maj. Mike Lambert to become the next director. Lambert will start Feb. 1, subject to confirmation by the state Senate.

Nurses at The Queen's Medical Center have called off their planned strike as they reached a tentative agreement with hospital management on a three-year collective bargaining agreement. The Hawaiʻi Nurses' Association and hospital management came to a compromise around 1 a.m. Monday after days of 12-hour negotiations and assistance from a federal mediator.