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A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Transit decisions are made by political bodies, and the results are often that the communities with the most political and economic power drive the bus, so to speak. Big data may change that.

The Honolulu Rate Commission will be taking public testimony on proposed fare increases on TheBus and TheHandi-Van on Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. HPR’s Zoe Dym reports on some of the changes the commission is considering.

The City and County of Honolulu has used $3 million of federal funding to sanitize TheBus during the pandemic.

Electric school buses are expensive but federal dollars are helping school boards across the country switch out some old diesel buses for clean energy buses. Georgia will get $60 million in funding.

There is a massive online server outage affecting Oʻahu’s public transportation services including TheBus, TheHandi-Van, and HOLO card operations. There is no time frame on when the networks will be recovered.

Thomas Wheeler led the Justice Department's civil rights unit through a period of transition. He told lawyers he never intended to stay in the job permanently.

O’ahu isn’t the only island where transit oriented development is being considered for the future. Kahului 2070 is Maui County’s long-range concept plan…

South Carolina is the latest state to debate a six-week abortion ban. The state's Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday.

Rosa Lee Parks, the woman known as the "mother of the civil rights movement," turned the course of American history by refusing in 1955 to give up her seat on a bus for a white man.