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Mark Ladao/HPRThe estimated cost of the damages is about $3.3 million, according to the Hawaiʻi Agricultural Foundation, which oversees about 800 acres of farm land in the Kunia area of Oʻahu. Most of that comes from the value of destroyed specialty crops like breadfruit, mango and banana. -
Hawaii State Judiciary/FacebookA group of Maui residents sued the state over Gov. Josh Green's emergency proclamations on affordable housing. The first was issued over two years ago, and it continues to be renewed.
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Maui resident Michelle Ankele-Yamashita shares her lung transplant story with two of her doctors from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. -
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was fatally shot in the neck yesterday at Utah Valley University during a speaking event. The Hawaii Republican Party said it's “devastated” about Kirk’s death and spoke against political violence. -
Peter Kannberg, associate researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi spoke to HPR's DW Gibson about the search for fresh water underneath the ocean floor. -
Hawaiʻi Island Community Health Center's street medicine program is growing to address the need for health care services for people experiencing homelessness. -
The Kauaʻi Medical Training Track at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine welcomed its fourth cohort of students into its program, which aims to improve healthcare in Kauaʻi’s rural areas while also training future physicians. -
Graeme Blair, the co-director of the Deportation Data Project, spoke with HPR's Maddie Bender about trends in immigration enforcement across the country since the start of the second Trump administration. -
Nancy Holman, superintendent of the National Park at Kalaupapa on Molokaʻi, spoke to HPR's Catherine Cruz about the reopening of tours to the historic settlement created for Hansen’s disease patients. -
The order from Friday stems from the state Board of Land and Natural Resources renewing four revocable permits in 2020 that allowed developer Alexander & Baldwin and its subsidiary, East Maui Irrigation, to divert the water for a year. -
Misha is a 29-year-old woman who has been alienated by her family and friends for lacking ambition. She finds solace in an 18-year-old who thinks she's also a high school student. -
A Native Hawaiian nonprofit has successfully preserved Hawaiʻi Island land for generations to come. ‘Anaeho‘omalu Kapalaoa, a 27-acre plot of land in Waikoloa Resort, will now be permanently protected by Nā ‘Ōiwi O Pu‘uanahulu, a Native Hawaiian descendant-led nonprofit.
