Education

In the 2024-2025 school year so far, the department has hired 125 new drivers and has reinstated 125 of the 138 canceled routes. The improvement is partially due to the department's decision to change the qualifications for school bus drivers.

The Conversation's DW Gibson spoke to Chief Global Officer for the University of Hawaiʻi System Brent White about helping international students navigate Trump's recent policy changes for student visas.

Trump calls for mining the sea floor in new executive order; Scientists have discovered a new species of caterpillar in the Waiʻanae Mountains, nicknamed "the bone collector."

More Hawaiʻi families may soon be eligible for free school meals. A bill passed Thursday would allow students who qualify for reduced-priced meals to get them for free starting in July.

King David Kalākaua Middle School students Marliena Domer, Audrey Maderazo, and Shaylene Padron took home first place in the performance category and a ticket to the national competition in Washington, D.C. — but their trip is up in the air, because of deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Babā Yim, the principal of the Hawaiian language immersion school Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻo Ānuenue, was awarded the Masayuki Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award. The Conversation talked to him about what it means to be honored with the award.

HPR's Maddie Bender reports on how federal funding cuts are impacting the University of Hawaiʻi; Kitty Simonds, executive director of the Western Pacific Fishery Council, responds to environmentalists' concerns about a Trump order allowing commercial fishing within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument

Over 45 federally funded projects totaling nearly $30 million at the University of Hawaiʻi have been frozen or terminated, or received stop work orders as of April 15, according to documents obtained by HPR. By Monday, University of Hawaiʻi President Wendy Hensel announced that the cuts had increased to $36 million.

Manufacturing in Hawaiʻi is all about food. There’s a new facility on Oʻahu to help food entrepreneurs make and market their products. It's called the Wahiawā Value-Added Product Development Center. We get more on that story from Pacific Business News Editor in Chief Janis Magin.

A science, technology, engineering, agriculture and mathematics program geared towards preschoolers on Maui provides themed books, interactive activities and family workbooks.