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Competition kicked off Thursday night at the 2025 Merrie Monarch Hula Festival in Hilo with the soloist competition. Thirteen contestants competed for the title of Miss Aloha Hula, including Jaedyn Pavao, who represented Kauaʻi's only hālau in this year's festival. HPR contributor Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi has more.
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HPR continues to look at how federal funding cuts have affected people in Hawaiʻi. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote talked to three federal workers who were fired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Kauaʻi amid Trump's efforts to downsize the government.
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The state measure is largely a response to the City and County of Honolulu's plans to site its next landfill in Wahiawā — on farmland and near a drinking water aquifer.
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Illegal vacation rentals, federal funding uncertainties, budget plans and more were the topics of a live discussion with Kauaʻi County Mayor Derek Kawakami as he prepares to deliver his state of the county address Friday.
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Volunteers from the Surfrider Foundation on Kauaʻi collected more than 162,902 pounds of marine debris and trash from beaches and coastlines in 2024.
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The Hawaiʻi Department of Accounting and General Services will construct a monument of two concrete columns with a gap between them, symbolizing the rift between the two sides of the labor conflict that left 20 people dead. The memorial is expected to be completed in 2026.
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The Kauaʻi Humane Society has no more space for pets — and is asking the public for help. The organization is currently housing 578 animals.
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A detection in a sample collected on Dec. 11 was so low that it wasn’t considered a positive. Samples collected on Dec. 18 and Jan. 8 also had similar low detections.
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In this year of our community forests, HPR has been highlighting programs in place to help engage people across the state. In honor of that, The Conversation spoke to former National Tropical Botanical Garden President and CEO Chipper Wichman about its 60 years of work.
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HPR met two staffers who tend to the ʻulu forest daily at the McBryde Garden on Kauaʻi. The Conversation talked to Neal Uno and Julia Ávila with the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Breadfruit Institute about the plant.