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Despite an incoming cold front, meteorologists predict that the weather over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend will be “typical” on the Big Island. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on 21-year-old Kaycee Smith in 2009 told a jury Tuesday she is certain Smith was a homicide victim. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Part of Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has been closed as increased seismic activity has been detected beneath Kilauea. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

KAILUA-KONA — An endangered Hawaiian monk seal that underwent medical treatment in West Hawaii has been released back to her ocean home off Kauai. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

State budget officials are scraping together a big pile of cash previously budgeted for a wide range of uses to instead pay for mounting Maui wildfire recovery expenses. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

HONOLULU — Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is meeting with senior U.S. military leaders and members of Hawaii’s large Filipino community this weekend in a visit steeped in geopolitical and personal significance for the leader, but also drawing small protests from a younger generation of Filipinos who point to the actions of his dictator father…

The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo has upgraded its planetarium. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Emotions were running high Friday at Makaeo Pavilion as the Department of Land and Natural Resources held a lottery to determine which four surf schools could operate at Kahalu‘u Beach. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Honua Ola Bioenergy is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., claiming in federal court that the electric utility has used monopolistic measures to keep Honua Ola’s completed but idle biomass power plant from going online. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Top county executives could be in line for significant pay raises come Jan. 1. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Puna Geothermal Venture power plant is nearly back to full capacity. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

WAIMEA — The same day as four wildfires sparked on Maui, including the Lahaina fire, firefighters were also battling seven hurricane wind-driven fires on Hawaii Island. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Hilo-based Japanese Community Association of Hawaii is sponsoring its Japanese Culture Day, or Bunka No Hi, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. this Saturday at the Sangha Hall. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

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Dozens of surfers took to the waves Thursday morning at Honoli’i Beach Park in Hilo to take advantage of high surf. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Kamehameha Schools Hawaii filed a police report Thursday alleging a former employee stole more than $360,000 from the Keaau campus. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Homeowners will be able to install solar power systems more easily under a new bill passed Wednesday by the Hawaii County Council. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Police said this morning Bayfront Highway in Hilo closed due to high surf and debris on roadway. Use alternate routes. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A woman’s threats on an American Airlines flight headed to Hawaii over wearing a face mask caused the captain to turn the plane around, according to federal prosecutors. Now, she owes the airline thousands of dollars. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The state Land Use Commission will hear a motion today asking the panel to reconsider its denial of a request by developers for more time to try to redistrict some land in the Kaloko Heights project in Kailua-Kona. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Big Island Singers will be presenting its second season of music to East Hawaii audiences with three hourlong performances this weekend. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Climate change in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands threatens unique island ecosystems, cultural resources, human health, livelihoods and access to clean water and healthy food. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service