Kanaloa Octopus Farm in West Hawaiʻi receives cease and desist letter from state

While tako is a common name for the octopus in the Aloha State, it is of Japanese origin. The Hawaiian word for octopus is he’e.

Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice.

Hawaiʻi Community Lending projects this funding will support 200 low-income families in their pursuit of housing in Hawaiʻi, with the potential to help more than 900 families over the next three years.

On Jan. 6, Kanaloa Octopus Farm was sent the letter, which said the state’s Division of Aquatic Resources learned the facility “is propagating Octopus cyanea and attempting to rear juvenile individuals.” Without a permit, even the temporary possession of Octopus cyanea specimens less than one pound in weight (including newly hatched larvae) is unlawful.

A portion of Mohouli Street in Hilo is closed following an officer-involved shooting, Hawai‘i police confirms this afternoon.

San Diego tourist Khiara Lavina Henry went missing four years ago on Maui – but a tipster may have seen her on the Big Island last month.

Hawai’i Energy can award a total of $592,000 in rebates for eligible installation projects of electric vehicle charging stations completed between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

The 2022-2023 magnetotelluric project will cover almost the entire surface of Kīlauea volcano and allow researchers to see more detail about the subsurface plumbing of the Southwest Rift Zone and the lower East Rift Zone that fed the 2018 Puna eruption on the Big Island.

With thousands of people expected to attend Saturday’s Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival in Waimea on the Big Island, today’s “Hawaiian Word of the Day” is ho‘olaule‘a.

The gallery in Hōlualoa is free and open to the public starting Feb. 4. Attendees may bid online beginning later in the month.

Maui Veterans Highway is closed south bound between Hansen Road and Mehameha Loop and north bound from Piʻilani Highway, due to a single motor vehicle accident.

"It is with a heavy heart that we offer news of firefighter Tre’ Evans-Dumaran. The ‘ohana of Tre’ Evans-Dumaran has confirmed the passing of Tre’ this morning."

The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement has been awarded a $200,000 grant from The Hawai'i Pacific Foundation Inc. to expand the reach of the council's community-facing programs, as well as add to its endowment, a news release said.

More than a dozen people involved in a Waiehu land dispute with nonprofit Maui Economic Opportunity, showed up at the organization's Puʻunēnē baseyard Friday to retrieve items removed last week from the subject property.

Unstable, wet trade wind weather expected through this weekend with locally heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms possible, mainly over the western...

The study on Kīlauea is using a passive geophysical technique that measures tiny perturbations in the natural Earth magnetic and electric fields to map out how well the rocks beneath our feet conduct electricity in order to reveal the volcano's subsurface magmatic plumbing.

A community-run shelter has been opened at Hale Halawai In Hanalei due to flooding on Kauaʻi. 

Unstable, wet trade wind weather expected through this weekend with locally heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms possible, mainly over the western...

The current northwest swell (310 degrees) will slowly fade, but additional medium-period north-westerly swells (320-350) are expected over the several days...

Kaua‘i County is holding a design workshop to discuss the ‘Akialoa Road Improvements Project in Kekaha.