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Forty votes separated the top two candidates in the race for Hawaiʻi County Council District 2 during the August primary election. The Conversation talked to candidate Matthias Kusch about affordable housing, managing tourism, cesspool conversions and more.

With nearly two decades in the business and an hour-long Netflix special under his belt, Tennessee comedian Nate Bargatze was at the top of his game when the pandemic hit in 2020. Now he’s making the trip to headline in Hawaiʻi this weekend — one of the rare remaining firsts in his long career.

President Biden met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Indonesia. It's just one of a series of top-level international meetings that continue this week. HPR's Bill Dorman has more in today's Asia Minute.

García Luna headed Mexico's federal police and became the country's top public safety official between 2006 and 2012. He was convicted of taking large bribes from drug cartels.

After a human resources crisis and the firing of three top executives, Bishop Museum has an interim CEO. Longtime Hawaiʻi executive Dee Jay Mailer will guide the museum as it searches for a permanent CEO.

Mexican authorities have arrested one of the top drug cartel leaders in the western state of Michoacan. Federal forces recently moved into the state to disarm civilian vigilantes who have been fighting to reclaim their communities from the cartel.

Forty votes separated the top two candidates in the race for Hawaiʻi County Council District 2 during the August primary election. The Conversation talked to candidate Jenn Kagiwada about affordable housing, working families, tourism, cesspool conversions and more.

After a human resources crisis and the firing of three top executives, Bishop Museum hired longtime Hawaiʻi executive Dee Jay Mailer as its interim CEO earlier this year. The museum's board of directors voted unanimously Wednesday for Mailer to continue as the permanent CEO for three years.

The world's top-ranked player Novak Djokovic won't play at the upcoming BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells after losing his bid to enter the U.S. unvaccinated to play in the Southern California event.

Hayes Carll made a stir in Americana music with his self-released 2004 album, Little Rock. Music critic Robert Christgau says that Carll has matured some since then, and that maturity sounds good on him. Carll is good for a laugh, but Christgau says his sensitive side puts his new album, Trouble In Mind, over the top.