The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaiʻi Authority is filling the gaps in leadership it’s had for months — sparking discussion about how to grow the agency’s ocean-based energy and aquaculture output.

Through a partnership with the Hawaiʻi Island Community Health Center and the Food Basket, the initiative provided 25 patients with weekly food boxes that are completely locally sourced to measure how regular access to healthy, local foods would impact their overall health.

October is Filipino American History Month, and a newly released animated film tells a magical tale about friendship from the Filipino perspective.

Mānoa Chocolate founder Dylan Butterbaugh shares how his business has fared with this year’s storms and tourism decline.

Retired Brigadier General Davil Stilwell discusses Hawaiʻi’s links to the Asia-Pacific region after Naval Destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. returned to Pearl Harbor.

A recent vote by the Honolulu City Council canceled plans to relocate two city agencies to a building in the heart of Chinatown. That set back hopes for new economic development for the area. We get more on that story from Pacific Business News Editor-in-Chief Janis Magin.

A short documentary called "Pili Hou: Finding Helen" will have its world premiere at the Hawai’i International Film Festival later this month. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol talked with the film’s creators about the personal journey behind the storyline.

Department of Transportation Services Director Roger Morton says diesel prices have been trending up since roughly the start of this fiscal year, which began in July.