The National Wildlife Disease Program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture works to monitor diseases avian flu. The Conversation talked to Julianna Lenoch, the program coordinator, about the latest outbreak.

A group of Kaʻū High School students recently traveled to New York City to present their school’s new zero-waste program to the National Recycling Congress. The Conversation spoke to senior Nyori Noelle Soriano, junior Kona Smith and teacher Ulu Makuakane about their experience.

Slack key musician Jeff Peterson released a new Christmas album that includes a collection of instrumental holiday classics. The Conversation talked to him about his new album.

Landon McNamara, a local surfer and musician, won the 2024 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay on Sunday.

Hawaiian Electric has filed a report with the Public Utilities Commission on the Aug. 8 wildfire in Lahaina. HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote walks through some of the findings.

As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster. A first-of-its-kind disaster relief program supported those families by paying up to $2,000 per month to people who took in displaced loved ones.

Increased earthquake activity began at about 2 a.m. and within about half an hour webcam images began to show lava emerging through fissures in the caldera or spurting in fountains. The eruption slowed significantly between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and appears to be paused.