Safety

In this day and age of genetic testing, privacy is something that the general public needs to know to safeguard their data. There is a window that is narrowing if you are one of the consumers who paid the company 23andMe to run genetic and medical testing on your DNA.

The City and County of Honolulu unveiled Tuesday a new mass notification system to send weather and emergency updates to Oʻahu residents and visitors.

The Conversation spoke to Kwok Fai Cheung, a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, who researches the link between earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and tsunamis in Hawaiʻi.

Travis Counsell, executive director of the Hawaiʻi Bicycling League, discusses the recent push to keep our streets safer as the state sees the proliferation of motorized scooters and electric bikes.

Hawaiʻi's Burmese responds to the devastating earthquake in Myanmar; The Hawaiʻi Bicycling League calls attention to a rise in fatalities among pedestrians and bike riders

Kūpuna with mobility issues face unique challenges during a disaster; The Lāhainā Film Festival comes to Oʻahu

Seniors are one of the most vulnerable communities during natural disasters. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on efforts to better prepare kūpuna inHawaiʻi.

Residents of fire-prone Waikōloa Village were hopeful that they would get a new evacuation route this year. Work on an egress road started under former Hawaiʻi County Mayor Mitch Roth, but now the new mayoral administration is casting doubt on the project. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more.

The Senate Public Safety Committee passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 149 requesting the Office of the State Fire Marshal to create a working group that would determine regulations for private property owners.

Since the 2023 Maui fires that destroyed Lahaina, communities across Hawaiʻi have sought ways to protect themselves from more destructive fires wrought by decades of climate change, urban development, and detrimental land use policies.