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Locally created AI tool transcribes and dissects government meetings

Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Executive Vice President Joe Kent spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the new AI tool called ...
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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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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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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 ...