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HPR reporter Ku'uwehi Hiraishi provides an update on how Hawaiʻi County businesses are dealing with a surge in COVID-19 cases; Surfing Moms' founder discusses how her group helps new mothers through the postpartum experience; Students at a Kauaʻi charter school share what they're sending to the International Space Station later this year.

Cruise ship passengers share their experience as they disembark in Honolulu this past weekend; The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation shares what's on the horizon for the cruise ship industry; Kuleana Rum Works gives us a behind the scenes tour

The International Vaccine Insitute shares strategies used in South Korea to manage the pandemic; HPR reporter Noe Tanigawa discusses using psychedelics as potential new therapies for depression; Kapa'a High School's head football coach discusses the road to winning the Garden Isle's first state championship

The Blood Bank of Hawaii is in urgent need of donors; Healing and hope for Hibiscus Drive residents; Maui axis deer are airport hazard; and drinking and driving and hamsters behind the wheel

Epidemiologist Tim Brown says the state needs to invest its data systems if it wants to curb the spread of COVID-19; A Hawaiʻi Island tour company is dealing with tsunami damage to its retail space; An experiment with squids in space may offer clues about how to combat stress

In celebration of January as Kalaupapa Month, we revisit past interviews related to the secluded peninsula on Moloka'i where those diagnosed with leprosy, now known as Hansen's Disease, were sent to live in isolation starting in the late 1800s.

On today's Aloha Friday Conversation, we speak with activists and stewards dedicated to preserving Hawaiʻi's natural resources and sacred spaces.

On the eighth anniversary of a 27,000-gallon spill of jet fuel in the Red Hill area, The Conversation welcomed Ernest "Ernie" Lau from the Honolulu Board of Water Supply and Gary Gill, who was with the Department of Health at the time of the leak, for a call-in show.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply weighs in on their side of the military housing water crisis; Honolulu's mayor discusses the water crisis, preparing for the omicron variant, and the recently passed hotel tax bill; A local historian takes a tour of a forgotten cemetery, where smallpox victims were buried in a mass grave.

Kauaʻi Mayor Derek Kawakami shares how his county is managing the latest phase of the pandemic and how it's collected the new hotel room tax; the Hawaiʻi Department of Health weighs in on the water situation affecting military families in central Oʻahu; and the head of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaiʻi discusses adapting to COVID restrictions.