#Big Island Now

Beloved Hawaiian music icon Robert Cazimero will perform at Kahilu Theatre on May 13, continuing his 37-year tradition of May Day concerts.

After the Senate rejected his first choice, Hawai’i Gov. Josh Green nominated James Kunane Tokioka of Kauaʻi to serve as the Director of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

The 21st Annual AstroDay, a free science and astronomy event, will be held May 6 at the Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo.

Vibrant Hawaiʻi is offering a 6-12 month paid part-time ambassador internship for Hawaiʻi Island youth and graduates taking a gap year.

The Hawaiʻi County fire and emergency medical services 911 system will be combined with the county police dispatch system effective immediately due to staffing shortages, the Hawaiʻi Fire Department announced.

All nine Hawaiʻi Walmart stores are participating in Walmart Wellness Day on May 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In the 20 years since its enactment, more than 250 leases, revocable permits, and vacant parcels representing more than 38,000 acres of crop and pasture lands have been transferred to the Department of Agriculture and the Agribusiness Development Corporation.

The National Weather Service has canceled the wind advisory for the Big Island.

There have been 301 major crashes so far this year compared with 258 during the same period last year.

University of Hawaiʻi engineers have made a 3D-printed wearable sweat sensor.

The Hawai’i Senate and House of Representatives spent several hours taking up last-minute measures Thursday on the final day of the 32nd Hawai’i Legislature, including the proposed state biennium budget that passed both branches.

Detectives charged 52-year-old Christopher Roy Howlind of Kurtistown with second-degree murder following the violent slaying of his mother-in-law, 58-year-old Teri Lynn Apple, in Orchidland Estates in Puna on the Big Island.

Five years ago, volcanic activity at Kīlauea on the Big Island dramatically changed when magma intruded into the lower East Rift Zone. What happened at Kīlauea in 2018?

Partnership means that the Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association will develop and carry Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail sales items in its visitor center park stores and online store.

Hawaiʻi Fire Department crews are working to contain a brushfire that has inundated roughly 150 acres above the Paʻauilo Transfer Station in North Hāmākua.

A recognition ceremony to honor the newly promoted department personnel and two Certificate of Merit recipients was held in Hilo on April 26.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources’ campaign begins in Waikoloa, where cat feeders have attracted endangered nēnē.

The Pa‘auilo Recycling and Transfer Station in Hāmākua is closed due to a brush fire in the area, according to Hawaiʻi County.

First Hawaiian Bank presented a $35,000 check to Hawai’i Island United Way as part of its 2023 campaign.

Keoni Patrick Keli‘ima Cassidy, 28 of Keauhou, was sentenced to 20 years for class A felony possession of 103 grams of heroin and other drugs on Monday in Kona Circuit Court on the Big Island.