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Hawaii taxpayers should have a happy New Year as the first of a series of historic tax cuts takes effect in January. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Corrections officials, dignitaries and other prominent community members gathered Thursday at Hawaii Community Correctional Center’s main Hilo campus to dedicate the brand-new Kaumana Housing Unit. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Three National Transportation Safety Board investigators will be taking the lead on trying to determine why Kamaka Air Flight 689 crashed Tuesday soon after takeoff from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, killing two young pilots from Oahu. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Police have arrested and charged one of the three men who escaped last Friday from the Hale Nani Correctional Facility. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Big Island midwives and the Hawaii County Council are urging the state to remove a requirement that midwives must have a license in order to practice. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A contractor has been chosen to demolish a house built on the wrong lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Hawaii County Department of Public Works will continue road paving this week on Makaʻala Street near the intersection with Kanoelehua Avenue. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The county Department of Research and Development is extending the application deadline for its Impact Grant Program to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is monitoring recent increases in seismic activity beneath Kilauea. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A 36-year-old Pahoa man remains in jail after a judge on Monday refused to free him without cash bail. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Witnesses to a large structure fire Sunday morning in South Kona said flames quickly engulfed the second story of the two-story building. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A 30-year-old Puna man police say was apprehended while in the act of burglarizing a Hawaiian Beaches home has waived a preliminary hearing. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Mayor Kimo Alameda has announced additional appointments for Hawaii County department administrators. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Robert Louie Fernandez, one of the last known American survivors of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, died Wednesday, just days after the 83rd anniversary of the attack, in Lodi, California. He was 100. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A West Hawaii reef fish will be safe from human harvesting for another two years, but no longer, decided the Board of Land and Natural Resources Friday. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Hawaii on Thursday received more than $6 million from the federal government to implement its Digital Equity Plan, part of a nationwide effort to address barriers to internet access and use. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Pana‘ewa Rainforest Zoo &Gardens will implement precautionary measures to protect its animals from bird flu after the virus was detected on the Big Island. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A 34-year-old Mountain View man accused of a shooting death and two nonfatal shootings four years ago has been found fit to stand trial. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Police are looking for a trio of escapees from Hale Nani Correctional Facility in Hilo. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

CORRECTION: A previous edition of this story contained an erroneous title for Dr. Sarah Kemble. The Tribune-Herald regrets the error. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

UPDATED 3:11 p.m. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A judge on Thursday denied a request to free a 41-year-old Pahoa man accused of a killing a dog with a hammer on cashless bail. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service