Local health officials say testing on West Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires.

Condominium residents of the Courtyards at Waipouli Apartments on Kauaʻi are concerned that they will be displaced once the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands acquires the property.

Hawaiian Electric has rebuilt a backup power line to West Maui that can feed electricity to about 11,000 people. The line serves as a redundancy in case one of the other lines or circuits goes out of service.

Hawai‘i has seen an uptick in its nursing workforce, according to a 2023 Nursing Workforce Supply Report released this week.

Strides are being made toward solving Hawaiʻi's health care worker shortage. Pacific Business News editor in chief A. Kam Napier has more on recent efforts to boost the nursing workforce.

Last month, The Conversation featured a new master's degree in construction management at Hawai’i Pacific University. The General Contractors Association of Hawaii just stepped up to support the program in a big way, to the tune of $250,000.

A 1,200-foot-long ti leaf lei made by the Kohala community on Hawaiʻi Island was draped across Pololū Valley over the weekend. As HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports, the lei ritual is a reminder of a growing community of residents opposed to increased development in the area.