Hawai'i Convention Center

Over the weekend, the Hawaiʻi Convention Center hosted its first full-capacity event since the pandemic began. HPR’s Zoe Dym attended Kawaii Kon 2022, the largest anime convention in Hawaiʻi, and spoke to attendees dressed up as their favorite fictional characters.

State agencies have used the Hawaiʻi Convention Center for nearly two years to meet increased workloads in response to the pandemic. Those expanded efforts are winding down and restrictions for large managed events have eased, allowing the building to host conferences, conventions and meetings.

The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority plans to seek $64 million from the state’s capital improvements budget to fix a leaky rooftop deck at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that’s more than double what the agency had last anticipated it would cost to complete the largest deferred maintenance project at the building, which opened in 1998.

If you live on O‘ahu, you may be wondering whether to buy tickets to “Beyond Van Gogh,” the multimedia exhibition based on the work of impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh. HPR's Noe Tanigawa offers a look inside the exhibit.

Visitors are slowly returning to the islands as restrictions begin to ease, and more people receive a vaccine. While leisure travel is making a comeback,…

A first-ever Medical Conference at the Hawai’i Convention Center this week is focusing on the natural healing properties of the human body. HPR’s Wayne…