Maddie Bender

The Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting won an award in early August for being an early adopter of an AI software used to tackle a backlog of building permits.

The Hawaiian lunar calendar, or kaulana mahina, was a critical way of life on the islands for thousands of years.

City and state officials deliver the latest updates on Hawaiʻi's recovery after Hurricane Lala; residents share their experience in the aftermath.

Big Island resident Kolby Moser co-hosts the Hawaiʻi Radio Hour on Sundays for HPR-1. She weathered the storm from Waimea, but her parents stayed at their home in Pāhala.

Kauaʻi Mayor Derek Kawakami shares how the Garden Isle fared during Hurricane Lala; business owners and residents from O'ahu and Hawai'i Island share how they're rebuilding amid storm damage and continued power outages.

In Nāʻālehu on Hawaiʻi Island sits Punaluʻu Bake Shop , a sweetbread bakery that sells thousands of its famous malasadas every day and attracts nearly half a million visitors each year.

HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote reports on HECO’s progress restoring power to the islands; Peter Oshiro, head of the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health’s Food Safety ranch, advises on how to prepare food for a hurricane.

To learn more, HPR spoke with Angelina Mercado, the executive director of the Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, about what the survey showed.

Scientists Rob Fleischer and Michael Campana of the Smithsonian Institution unlock the ‘ancient DNA’ of the extinct Lānaʻi hookbill.

U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda has filed a congressional inquiry on behalf of an Army sergeant from Schofield Barracks.