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Between 3,000 and 6,000 new homestead lots could be developed with $600 million allocated to the Department of Hawaii Home Lands this year. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

HONOLULU — A U.S. defense contractor and his wife who lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, according to federal court records unsealed in Honolulu. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The state Department of Health’s Safe Drinking Water Branch is seeking comments about Honua Ola Bioenergy’s (formerly Hu Honua Bioenergy) final report and modeling report of its application to operate an injection well at the Pepeekeo site of the almost completed wood-burning power plant. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Healthcare Association of Hawaii identified nurse aides as the most vacant position in the medical field statewide. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

An hours-long telecommunications outage that impacted much of West Hawaii on Tuesday was caused by the accidental severing of a fiber optic cable by a construction company working in South Kohala. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A pair of storms in the Eastern Pacific threaten to become hurricanes within the next few days. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Kaumana Drive between Lyman Springs and Nolemana Street will be closed for the next four hours as workers clear a downed utility pole. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

UPDATE: Police report that Hawaiian Telecom has successfully repaired its fiber optic cable and that cell and landline phone service to the west side of the island is now fully restored. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The annual state Judiciary juror questionnaires will soon be mailed to individuals who have a Hawaii state driver’s license or are registered to vote in Hawaii. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A state investigation found that a 60-year-old California elementary school teacher did nothing to provoke an attack Sunday by a Hawaiian monk seal named Rocky, who was swimming with her pup. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Two Hilo lawyers have been indicted in a corruption case involving a former housing specialist for the Hawaii County Office of Housing and Community Development. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A 48-year-old South Kona man was sentenced Friday to up to five years behind bars after being found guilty of keeping a minor under the age of 16 chained to a floor. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The Board of Land and Natural Resources has approved a search for a new lessee for the former Country Club Condominium Hotel. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The effects of rising interest rates are beginning to be felt on the Big Island as numbers of prospective homebuyers taper off. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

More than 100 small farmers on the Big Island could lose their businesses after Gov. David Ige’s decision to veto a bill allowing them to extend their leases on state land. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Police have arrested a 32-year-old Kailua-Kona man in connection with a fire that burned 150 acres of vacant land Thursday on the south side of Daniel K. Inouye Highway near the 50-mile marker. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it is accepting comments on a proposed revision to the consent order requiring Hawaii County to close five decades-old gang cesspools in Pahala and Naalehu. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A wildfire has consumed an estimated 600 acres near Pohakuloa Training Area, the U.S. Army reported Thursday. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

The state Department of Health has identified three additional cases of monkeypox. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

UPDATE: Police say Daniel K. Inouye Highway in South Kohala between Highway 190 and the Old Saddle Road has been reopened and there is no need to detour to Old Saddle Road. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

A group of owners of condos surrounding a North Kona rock-crushing operation now have standing in a future contested case hearing over whether the work being done there exceeds what was allowed by a permit application that was subsequently withdrawn by the applicant. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. David Ige and leadership from both the state Senate and House today announced that applicants are now being sought to serve on the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. Top Featured Tags: – Hawaii News Press Release Distribution Service