Get a COVID-19 vaccine. Wear a mask. Stay at least 6 feet apart. Avoid crowds. Wash your hands. These are messages we have heard over the past year as we've had to battle and navigate COVID-19 across the country and here in our state. What more can we do? Will a COVID-19 vaccine help? When will I be able to get one? What are the side effects? What's happening in our hospitals? Join us for a conversation with administrators at Hawaiʻi hospitals, and get the answers to the questions that you have.

In the fall of 2020, at the beginning of the first new school year during the coronavirus pandemic, HIKI NŌ students created video reflections on changes they were grappling with in the way their classes were being conducted and in their personal lives.

The Hawaiian language nearly went extinct following the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy. For decades, it was mostly spoken in homes by kūpuna. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Hawaiian Renaissance movement helped save the native tongue from disappearing. Meet four Hawaiian Language Masters - Larry Kimura, Sarah Keahi, Puakea Nogelmeier and Amy Kalili - and hear how they became interested in learning the Hawaiian language and their dedication to perpetuating ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.

Most colleges and universities went to virtual classrooms as COVID-19 swept the nation, eliminating in-person learning and interaction for thousands of students. How are these changes affecting students currently enrolled, as well as high school seniors considering whether to go to college at all?

This special episode will reveal the winning stories from the high school and middle school divisions of the HIKI NŌ 2020 Fall Challenge competition.

Get to know Sherry Menor-McNamara, the youngest and first female President and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi. After working in Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo, Menor-McNamara returned to Hawaiʻi and earned post-graduate degrees in law and business. Her interests in public service and business converge in her current role at the local Chamber, which has won national recognition under her leadership.

Richard Ho‘opi‘i and George Kahumoku Jr. walked into the PBS Hawai‘i studio, sat down with their instruments, and began to play. George, with his mellow slack key guitar and soothing voice, performing alongside Richard, with his never ending smile and his beautiful falsetto, offered song after song, with talk story in-between. This impromptu concert can only be described as pure joy.

The on-going public health crisis that is COVID-19, a struggling economy and a dire budget outlook that could lead to furloughs and/or layoffs is just a few of the topics that state legislature will be faced in this legislative season.

As we begin the first new school year in the COVID-19 era, HIKI NŌ students reflect on their experiences with distance learning and other challenges brought on by the pandemic.

In 2015, when the University of Hawai‘i named Eran Ganot as the new head coach for the men’s basketball team, many onlookers were surprised. Find out why.