2025年1月3日 · Angelina Bagaforo was celebrating New Year's Eve in Hawaiʻi like many others. She remembered fireworks illuminating the skies across Oʻahu and kids playing outside her house with sparklers. Three minutes before midnight, she heard continuous explosions from a house across the street in Oʻahu's Salt Lake-Āliamanu neighborhood.

This daily feature encourages awareness of the use of Hawaiian language, or ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, in everyday conversation. In each 30-second vignette, host Leilani Poliʻahu introduces a new word, explains what it means, spells it, and models the correct pronunciation.

Founded in 1981, member-supported Hawai‘i Public Radio provides two streams statewide: HPR-1 with news, talk, and a variety of music, and HPR-2, your home for classical music.

Kani ka pila means 'play music' in Hawaiian, and Kanikapila Sunday, hosted by Keali'iloma (Louise Kealiʻiloma King Lanzilotti), plays two hours of great Hawaiian music, from the earliest recordings to the present day. You'll also hear slack key guitar, steel guitar, 'ukulele and other instrumentals. Questions or comments? Contact Keali'iloma at [email protected] past ...

2025年1月8日 · Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted because of smoke from several wildfires burning in the surrounding hills.. Exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing health problem across the country, as human-caused climate change increases the risk and intensity of wildfires and the smoke that can drift thousands of miles downwind from them.

2024年12月18日 · Authorities say a small cargo plane on a training flight crashed into a vacant building shortly after taking off from Honolulu’s airport and burst into flames, killing the two people on board. The Federal Aviation Administration says Kamaka Air Flight 689 crashed into the building near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.

2024年11月15日 · More Maui housing for fire survivors is coming online through the Federal Emergency Management Agency next week. But FEMA-housed residents will need to start paying rent for their units soon – at rates they think need to …

2024年12月23日 · Landon McNamara, a local surfer and musician, won the 2024 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay on Sunday. "This is a childhood dream of mine, something I've been working at since being a little kid on the beach here, watching these events go down," McNamara said in an acceptance speech.

2024年8月8日 · Lahaina resident Ashley Kahahane remembers the first time she visited her home after the fire. “I was dreading to walk to see it burned. And, you know, it was a hard time to come with the Samaritans and look through, sift through things, and pick up pieces that we never, ever gonna get back," she said.

The Early Muse. There is a wonderful richness and variety in Western music before the year 1700. Host Ian Capps explores everything from Medieval chant and troubadour songs to the rich polyphony of Renaissance sacred and secular music, and into the Baroque 'revolution' of the 17th century with its invention of the opera, oratorio, ballet and orchestral music as we know it today.