Tourism has been at the heart of Hawaiʻi's economy since the 1970ʻs. The visitor industry has gone through different phases ...

The Honolulu City Council Budget Committee narrowly advanced a measure that would tax properties left vacant by up to 3%. A ...

Lahaina educators received monetary thanks for their extraordinary commitments to their students in the wake of the wildfires. And as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, there’s also a housing ...

What can we learn about the environment from mele? HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote speaks with a researcher working to shine a ...

The Navy is preparing for a large-scale removal effort of a problematic invasive coral that covers around 80 acres at Pearl ...

The Honolulu City Council is considering a task force that would look into merging the Honolulu Emergency Services Department ...

The Waiwhatu Project has created or expanded the definitions of six words in te reo Māori — the language of the Indigenous ...

West Maui residents devastated by last year's wildfire are awaiting the return of one of the nation's most prestigious ...

The Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting’s new technology has allowed the code review process to decrease to just ...

A tiny Hawaiian honeycreeper, the ‘anianiau, found only on Kaua’i, is now in residence at the Honolulu Zoo. The Kauaʻi Forest ...

Honolulu is one of eight U.S. cities that won a grant for a public art project. Wahi Pana, or storied places, will feature 11 ...

With the Central Maui Landfill nearing capacity and no permanent site for Lahaina's fire debris, Maui County has reached an ...