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Blood Bank of Hawaii calls for donors to meet increased demand

Kim-Anh Nguyen, the CEO of the Blood Bank of Hawaii, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about the challenges of ...
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City Council advances bill to incentivize income-based rental housing program

The Honolulu City Council Budget Committee advanced a bill Tuesday to try and make an unused affordable housing program more ...
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OHA and DHHL enter negotiations for housing in Kakaʻako Makai

The state transferred about 30 acres of land to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs over a decade ago to settle a long-standing ...
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Food insecurity in Hawaiʻi is trending upward, new study finds

The second food insecurity study by the Hawaiʻi Foodbank indicates that 32% of local households didn’t have enough food between mid-2024 and mid-2025 — up 3 percentage points from the organization’s ...
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Highway Inn sues state over tax on pandemic-era Restaurant Revitalization Fund

Monica Toguchi Ryan, the third-generation owner of Highway Inn, spoke to HPR's Bill Dorman about the challenges of running a ...
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Oʻahu bird sanctuary reflects 1 year after culling flock due to avian flu

Susan Wilkinson of Susie's Duck Sanctuary spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about how a case of avian flu destroyed ...
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Hawaiʻi drivers offered free dashcams as states turn to AI for safer roads

Cities and states in the U.S. are turning to AI to improve road safety. Hawaiʻi is distributing 1,000 dashboard cameras to monitor road conditions and reduce traffic fatalities.