Election cards have been mailed

The Hawaii County Elections Division has mailed out election notification cards. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Slow spring for real estate? Interest rates continue to put pressure on home sales

It’s likely to be a slow spring for Big Island home sales as the market struggles to recover from 2023. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Landowner testifies in HPP house snafu case

A California woman being sued by a developer whose contractor erroneously built a home on her lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park testified in court Friday that monetary damages are not what she is seeking. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Cockfighting bill dies in Senate

A controversial state measure that would crack down on people raising chickens for cockfighting is dead. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Uncle Miles Kitchen departs Hilo airport

After 15 years of serving travelers, Uncle Miles Kitchen has closed at the Hilo International Airport. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Governor designates Official State Snails

HONOLULU — Gov. Josh Green has signed legislation designating an official state kahuli, or snail, for each of the main Hawaiian Islands and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport closed for the third time this year

Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport closed for the third time this year after a crack in the runway was discovered Friday morning. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Hawaii lawmakers push electric utilities to reduce wildfire risks

The state Legislature appears poised to create a new way for Hawaii electric utilities to pay for wildfire risk mitigation that reduces the cost possibly passed onto ratepayers in an effort to help prevent another tragic fire in the state. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Most of East Hawaii, Kona coffee belt had above-average rainfall

March was rainier than average on the windward side of Hawaii Island and the South Kona coffee belt. Elsewhere, not so much. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Police seize over 107 grams of fentanyl in March

During the month of March, Hawaii Police Department reports a total of seven fentanyl-related arrests, six in East Hawaii and one in West Hawaii. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

With help from the Benioffs, groundbreaking held for landmark expansion of Hilo hospital

“It’s a new beginning for health care here on the island.” Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Work to decommission 2 Maunakea telescopes to resume

Work to decommission a pair of Maunakea telescopes will resume this month. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

‘Kauhale Initiative’ garners support from Hilo crowd

Hilo residents were widely enthusiastic Tuesday night during a meeting about a state project to develop communities of tiny homes for the Big Island’s homeless population, despite misgivings about where those communities could be built. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Benioffs bolster fire department fleet

The Hawaii Fire Department now has access to four brand-new brushfire trucks that were gifted through donations to the Daniel R. Sayre Memorial Foundation. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive?

KAILUA — Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Flurry of legal action in case involving home built on wrong property

Both Hilo Circuit Court judges have bowed out from hearing a case involving a California woman sued by a developer whose contractor mistakenly built a house on her lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Kolekole park set to reopen end of April

A new and improved Kolekole Gulch Park will reopen later this month after years of closure. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Hilo teacher wins $25,000 Milken award

Rory Inouye, a math teacher at Waiakea High School, has won a $25,000 national Milken Educator Award. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

DOH investigating whooping cough cases on Hawaii Island

The state Department of Health is investigating two confirmed cases of pertussis — also known as whooping cough — and identified eight probable cases in two separate households without travel-related exposures on Hawaii Island. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

HMC begins preparing for new modern administrative services building

A new facility to house additional office space and a planned medical simulation lab at Hilo Medical Center took a step forward Monday, but is still years away from reality. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Wahine sweep top three Merrie Monarch spots

“It’s very humbling.” Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Homeless camp meeting set for Tuesday

State and county officials will hold a public meeting Tuesday to discuss proposed government-sanctioned homeless camps in Hilo. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

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