Puna District

The Puna ʻŌpio Hub is a new Hawaiʻi Island youth resource center for those ages 14 to 25 who want a place where they can gain workforce experience and develop life skills, free of charge.

Environmental activist and Big Island resident Lynn Boerner Nakkim reacts to news that Red Hill will be permanently shut down, decades after her father was commissioned to build it; lawmakers are trying to tackle traffic in Puna, one of the fastest growing communities on Hawaiʻi Island; Hawaiʻi Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Director Catherine Awakuni seeks to teach residents how to protect themselves from scams in their week-long Consumer Education Fair

State lawmakers were briefed on the current status of a disease that is worrying East Hawai’i Island residents. HPR’s Wayne Yoshioka reports.