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The Conversation: Slow growth of Hawaiʻi's exceptional trees; Documentary on Lahaina surf instructorA look at the past, present and future of the state Exceptional Tree Program that was established nearly 50 years ago; Lahaina surf instructor Robert “Bully” Kotter's surfing camps and their impact on homeless children in the area are the focus of the “Uncle Bully's Surf Skool” documentary
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Residents are slowly returning to what’s left of their businesses and homes two months after the fire, reclaiming belongings that survived the fire, assessing their properties for insurance purposes, or for a sense of closure.
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Maui residents want to bury power lines, restore water and rework tourism in West Maui to better serve locals. Those were some of the requests and demands to Maui County councilmembers during an all-day public hearing on Wednesday that involved about 100 testifiers and more observers.
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Some immigrants who have been affected by the Lāhainā fires last month may be hesitant about seeking disaster relief assistance. The latest U.S. Census Bureau data show that about 32% of Lahaina’s population is “foreign-born."
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Environmental Protection Agency on Maui's clean-up; Department of Agriculture urges turning in pesticides and dangerous chemicals; artifacts from the Maui fires; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month
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The carved form of Lāhainā's goddess Kihawahine has been in a museum in Germany for more than 130 years. Efforts to return her to Mokuhinia, the once abundant wetland pond in Lāhainā, could have significant cultural and spiritual impacts on the Native Hawaiian community. HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi has this story.
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LAHAINA — An insurance company is offering a $50,000 reward to help find a masked man in a full-length black gown who stole more than $1 million in…
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This week the nation's highest court announced it would hear a case concerning the discharge from a wastewater treatment plant in Lahaina. The case has…
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For the first time in more than a century, land titles held by Hawaiʻi’s former sugar companies are being opened to challenge. At their peak in the 1930s,…
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Hawai‘i is a paradise for photographers and the range and quality of photographs available here is very high. Now there’s a perhaps unexpected genre…