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- Aug 25, 2026
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Schofield Army sergeant fights ‘tooth and nail’ to return after Trump’s trans military ban (opens the original)
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U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda has filed a congressional inquiry on behalf of an Army sergeant from Schofield Barracks. Her name is Clara Davis, and she believes she was the first soldier to be involuntarily discharged from the military because of President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops. Sgt. Davis enlisted in 2019 and was deployed during the Afghanistan withdrawal and provided security for refugees in Bahrain. She was stationed at Schofield Barracks as a military police investigator and patro
Scientists unlock the 'ancient DNA’ of a long-lost Lānaʻi bird species (opens the original)
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Birds like the nēnē, ʻiʻiwi and manu-o-Kū are already familiar across the Hawaiian islands — but have you ever heard of the Lānaʻi hookbill? Only one specimen of the now-extinct honeycreeper remains in a museum collection, and for over a century it has puzzled scientists. The remnants of the bird’s DNA was thought to be too degraded to salvage, but using new techniques in what’s known as “ancient DNA,” scientists at the Smithsonian have finally cracked the code to the Lānaʻi hookbill. The discov
Statewide survey on domestic violence reveals the limits of the legal protection (opens the original)
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Three killings on Hawaiʻi Island in May this year shocked the state. A 24-hour manhunt led to the arrest of suspect Jacob Baker. Following those killings, it came to light that two women had earlier filed temporary restraining orders against Baker, but they had been denied by a judge. The situation highlighted the limitations of temporary restraining orders as a process. Now, a new survey is capturing how survivors of domestic violence feel about the laws in place to protect them, and whether th
Beloved Hawaiʻi Island bakery left devastated by Hurricane Lala (opens the original)
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In Nāʻālehu on Hawaiʻi Island sits Punaluʻu Bake Shop, a sweetbread bakery that sells thousands of its famous malasadas every day and attracts nearly half a million visitors each year. After Hurricane Lala, however, the beloved local business was left devastated by storm damage. General Manager Zach Kennedy sent out an update early Monday morning with before-and-after photos of the area. The bake shop, bakery and outdoor gazebo were all caked with mud and debris. Kennedy spoke with HPR about how
'Kaʻū people are so resilient,' resident updates on district's recovery (opens the original)
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Big Island resident Kolby Moser co-hosts the Hawaiʻi Radio Hour on Sundays for HPR-1. She weathered the storm from Waimea, but her parents stayed at their home in Pāhala. Moser spoke with The Conversation about how communities in the Kaʻū district have fared. She told HPR that the worst part of the storm hit on Saturday afternoon and went into the evening. “I woke up in the morning, I saw a lot of videos being posted from Pāhala that they were cut off, that the roads had washed away,” Moser said
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