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A ceremony was held for the Terminal Modernization Project groundbreaking at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole on Wednesday, March 22.

The recent sale of Hale Kiekiena, a luxury home with celebrity ties in Mauna Kea Resort, is the biggest Big Island real estate transaction so far this year.

Rideshare company Lyft will begin service on the Big Island on Thursday, March 23, at noon.

The Food Basket’s Senior Produce Program is forced to shut down after budget slashes.

Sharecare and Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) have expanded their partnership to advance healthcare throughout the state, and HMSA is making a separate strategic investment in Sharecare. Sharecare is a digital health company that consolidates health management in a single online platform. HMSA is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, […]

The West Hawaiʻi Association of Realtors (WHAR) has selected Kona Historical Society (KHS) as their “Charity of Choice for 2017.” The Association announced the selection during a member luncheon featuring an engaging talk by Howard Dicus of Hawaiʻi News Radio and Hawaiʻi News Now. WHAR is a nonprofit corporation and was established in 1969. Members […]

The University of Hawai’i’s School of Architecture and Community Design Center has announced the launch of the Building Voices Design Competition, a statewide competition for local designers at all levels of their career. The competition will be featured as part of the Building Voices Design Festival at the on Hawaiʻi State Capitol on Earth Day, […]

The unemployment rate for Hawai‘i County was 3.4% in January, up slightly from December 2016’s 3.1% and down .4% from January 2016.

The coffee berry borer first detected in the state in September 2010 in Kona, discovered in Ka‘ū in May 2011 and on O‘ahu in 2014, has now spread to Maui.

A groundbreaking and blessing ceremony for a new 9,000-square-foot Adult Day Care Center in Hilo took place on March 6, 2017.

Schools in Hilo and West Hawai‘i will receive funding from Kupu and Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation’s inaugural Hawai‘i Youth Sustainability Challenge grant program.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawaii is marking three decades of assisting families with seriously ill children from Hawai‘i and the Pacific Rim.

The Hawaii Writers Guild has been created for professional writers on the Big Island.

From Sept. 6 to 8, 2017, the Hawaii Pavilion will be home base for up to 70 Hawai‘i companies seeking to export locally made gift products.

Habitat for Humanity West Hawaiʻi is seeking volunteers to support the construction of ten homes over a ten-day period from Sept. 13 to 23, 2017. The event will be called a “Blitz Build” and will mainly be conducted through volunteer labor to house local families.  Help is needed for construction of the ten homes, as […]

More than 2,700 Hawaiʻi Walmart employees received a share of over $698,000 in bonus payouts in their March 9 paychecks, the company announced on March 13. The bonuses were based on the retail giant’s fourth quarter earnings, the strongest sales performance of the year totalling at 1.8 percent. “As a manager, it’s great to be […]

Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center honored its valued volunteers last month with a Volunteer Appreciation Party at Hilo Bay Café.

McDonald’s of Kona Commons will celebrate its fifth birthday on Saturday, March 25, with entertainment, food and prizes.

Andrea Pro will present “Taking the Scariness Out of Conflict” on Thursday, March 16, 2017, from noon to 1 p.m.

The American College of Healthcare Sciences is opening a new satellite campus in the Central Kona Center Building in Kealakekua.