Safety

Wildfire prevention experts are encouraging local communities to scale their efforts to reduce fire risks and improve access to insurance.

Darren Pai, Hawaiian Electric Company manager of external communications, spoke to HPR's Maddie Bender about recent power outages.

National Weather Service meteorologist Derek Wroe spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about severe weather that shut down most of the state Monday morning.

Lingering windy and rainy conditions may continue, depending on your location, the National Weather Service reports.

Several bills introduced this legislative session target the industry, ranging from increasing penalties for traffickers and sex crimes, to developing mandatory training programs for workers in the transient accommodation sector.

Emergency managers advise everyone to keep a two-week supply of food on hand in case of a disaster. But how much food is that exactly? And what does it cost? HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote gets into the details.

Mark Dombroski began lifeguarding on Oʻahu's North Shore in 1975 and retired in 2016. The Aikau brothers recruited Dombroski and mentored him for the first few years of his career, as they and others developed a rescue system using jet skis.

Politician Shirlene Ostrov returns to head the Hawaiʻi Republican Party; Investigative journalist Lois Parshley looks into claims of censorship from one of the country's largest owners of local newspapers, including several Hawaiʻi publications

Sara Gabrielson from the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization and Kathryn Dressendorfer from the Surfrider Foundation spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about a new approach to landscaping on Maui.

Gov. Josh Green delivers his State of the State address; Oʻahu residents gathered to protest over the weekend in response to the second killing of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minnesota