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Mandy Whitaker plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

A University of Hawaiʻi economist says he’s cautiously optimistic about the future outlook for the state’s economy even though he’s expecting statistics to show thousands of jobs were lost during the recent Delta variant surge.

Tank and the Bangas' third studio album, Red Balloon, celebrates Black life and reckons with America's ills. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to lead singer Tarriona "Tank" Ball.

Hawai‘i Public Radio successfully concluded its Spring Membership Campaign last week, with $500,109 raised from 1,173 individual contributors. First-time donors represented 26% of all contributors.

The Chaparrastique volcano blew for the first time in 37 years, producing a cloud that rose as much as six miles into the air. Airlines canceled many flight into and out of the country. While things are calmer today, gases are still rising from the volcano.

Felicia Marcus of the State Water Board said, "We need all Californians to step up — and keep it up — as if we don't know when it will rain and snow again, because we don't."

A large layoff is under way at Microsoft, as the technology company says it will cut 13,000 jobs in the next six months. All but 500 of those layoffs are related to the Nokia phone division.

Alexander & Baldwin, one of Hawaii’s oldest companies, will have a new CEO come January first. Pacific Business News’s editor in chief, A. Kam Napier, has…

A growing number of countries and international companies have suspended business operations in Russia. The actions by international banks are having a direct impact—including on some Russians who are out of the country. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

She's only 23, but the British rapper has already lived a lifetime in the music business. After entering the scene as a teenager, enjoying a No. 1 single and ultimately parting ways with Def Jam Records, she's now issued her sophomore release.