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The parent of Mokulele Airlines is planning to launch the first electric passenger air service in Hawaiʻi. It's part of a partnership that includes purchasing up to 100 electric aircraft.

Five community health centers are asking for state support to finance new solar microgrids. HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote spoke to leaders at the centers about how this initiative would help them weather rising costs.

Since 1970, rental car companies have not had to pay the general excise tax when buying cars for their fleets. Instead, those companies pay a wholesale tax rate of 0.5%.

A historic shift is coming in how Maui’s water resources are managed, particularly in West Maui. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol shares the big announcement.

Over the past two years, Pono Pacific and the Hawaiʻi Agriculture Research Center have grown camelina at a handful of test sites across the islands in the hopes of fine-tuning local cultivation of the crop for biofuel production.

The number of visitors from Japan is still only about half of the 1.5 million that came before the COVID-19 pandemic. But numbers only tell part of the story.

A planned food storage and distribution facility for Maui Food Bank is one step closer to reality. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports the project is long-awaited to meet increasing food needs in the community.

The Prohibition era may have been 100 years ago, but it’s inspiring a new trend in Hawaiʻi nightlife. The speakeasy is back — and it’s a concept that’s spreading across Oʻahu.

A Maui hat shaper crafts custom-made cowboy hats that are just as much about the experience as they are about the art. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol visited his Makawao shop, Uncle Vic’s, to learn all about it.

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaiʻi to demand better wages and staffing. The union said in a statement Monday that "significant movement at the bargaining table" prompted an end to the walkout.