The newly launched Kupuna Caregivers Program will help working caregivers pay for vital support services for their elderly charges.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society president and mālama Honua advocate speaks of the challenges ahead and the hope he has witnessed in people around the world during Hōkūleʻa's worldwide voyage.

The nonprofit says that the proposed program fails to live up to lawmakers’ vision for dramatically expanding access to clean energy in Hawaiʻi.

The ban would include electronic smoking devices and betel nut products as well.