History

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport is on a list of 40 airports that have been ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration to cut 10 percent of their flights; The 442nd Regimental Combat Team is immortalized in the documentary "Defining Courage"

Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation is celebrating the launch of a digital resource called a "story map" that highlights Makawao's history, heritage and stories with an in-person event next Saturday.

Happy Halloween! On today's broadcast, we're revisiting some of our spookiest interviews. Get ready for graves, ghosts, and creepy-crawlies galore!

After more than a century, cultural artifacts from Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are being returned to their home islands.

Gov. Josh Green shares how the state is responding to the threat to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Debbie Ngarewa Packer, co-leader of the Māori Party in Aotearoa, or New Zealand, talks about her suspension last year after participating in a haka on the Parliament floor

Eleni Gill Avendaño, the director of “Nā Wāhine Buda Kiakahi,” along with two of the film’s producers, spoke with HPR’s DW Gibson about exploring the history of Buddhism in Hawaiʻi.

Jason Momoa prepared for his role in "Chief of War" with a personal language coach who lived with him for nearly a year. Momoa is Native Hawaiian but didn't grow up speaking Hawaiian. He and other actors worked with coaches to master their lines.

The historic vessel Falls of Clyde journeyed to its final undersea resting place on Wednesday, some 25 miles off Oʻahu's south shore. HPR was at Aloha Tower just before daybreak as two tug boats hauled the last iron-hulled tanker out into Honolulu Harbor for its final journey.

Alphie Garcia and Kawena Komeiji of the University of Hawaiʻi library system spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the Kaʻohipōhaku project.

Archeologist and anthropologist Tim Scheffler spoke to HPR's Maddie Bender about a mysterious “pictogram” he found nearly 12 years ago in a cave near Pāhoa Town on Hawaiʻi Island.