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It's been roughly seven months since the wildfire ripped through Lahaina, destroying or damaging more than 2,000 structures, including centuries-old historic buildings. University of Hawaiʻi students are incorporating artificial intelligence and digital modeling to preserve the town's historic architecture. HPR's Cassie Ordonio has more.
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Nonprofits that preserve Hawaiʻi’s history are taking stock of what has been lost in Lahaina. Pacific Business News editor-in-chief A. Kam Napier has more.
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Across the Hawaiian Islands, over a hundred women took part in a top-secret program called the Women’s Air Raid Defense. King’s College London lecturer and World War II historian Sarah-Louise Miller spoke to The Conversation about why few today remember their heroic contributions.
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Hawaiian Dredging is one of three companies driving the modernization of Dry Dock 5 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Hawaiian Dredging Vice President of the Commercial Division Paul Silen talked to The Conversation about the joint venture to modernize the shipyard to the tune of $3.4 billion.
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We discuss how a clean fuel standard could help Hawaiʻi reduce carbon emissions in transportation; the Honolulu EMS director talks about the recent increase of fentanyl and drug use on Oʻahu; Hawaiian Dredging discusses the Pearl Harbor dry dock modernization project; and a British historian highlights the contributions of Hawaiʻi women during World War II
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One of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died. Richard C. "Dick" Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, at the age of 102. His granddaughter said Wednesday he died of natural causes.
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The portrait of Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch, painted in the 1890s, was on view outside of Hawaiʻi for the first time. In Washington, D.C., it was a centerpiece of an exhibit entitled “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions." The Conversation's Catherine Cruz has been following the portrait since it left ʻIolani Palace in 2022.
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Is shoplifting on the rise?; Challenges ahead for the Navy's $3 billion overhaul of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam drydock; Queen Liliʻuokalani's portrait returns to ʻIolani Palace
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Hawaiʻi will celebrate Prince Kūhiō Day at the end of this month. For some island residents, this may be just another day off. But for hundreds who celebrate across the island chain and the continental U.S., Prince Kūhiō is more than just a holiday.
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Today we're revisiting some of our favorite interviews about significant places and moments in Oʻahu’s storied past.