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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.

Hawaiian Airlines completed the month of January 2017 as the U.S. airline industry’s top-ranked carrier for on-time performance.

Hawaiian Airlines launched its once daily non-stop service betwee Līhu’e Airport and Kona International Airport on the morning of Sunday, March 12, 2017.

Award-winning local zipline company Skyline Eco-Adventures has received Best of the Best Awards in nine categories in HAWAI‘I Magazine’s 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards. The magazine tallied thousands of votes from readers in Hawai‘i, the mainland US and internationally, earning Skyline Eco-Adventures the title of the No. 1 Zipline Company on Hawai‘i Island for the second […]

Hawai‘i Electric Light has opened a new utility-owned and -operated electric vehicle DC fast charger for the Hawai‘i Island community.

Hawai‘i’s MANAOLA lifestyle brand will bring its line of culture-conscious clothing to Waikoloa this weekend, March 10 and 11.