Community

Volunteers are needed to support hospital patients and their families. No special skills are required. The only qualification required is your desire to help others.  

The National Park Service is in the early stages of project planning to remove and replace the existing maintenance facilities at the park that are no inappropriately occupying areas that contain historic and ancient archaeological resources.

The interactive curriculum for students in kingergarten through 5th grade focuses on three main areas: Hawaiian language/culture, STEAM and literacy.

These are not your typical home assessors who determine the value of your place, but specially trained people who will conduct free reviews of how safe a property and its structures are from the threat of wildfires. 

When winter comes to Mauna Kea, which means “White Mountain,” many people want to see the snow in tropical Hawai’i.

Army units will conduct training Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 5-6, at Keaukaha Military Reservation.

Hawaiʻi Island community members are invited to support The Food Basket now through Dec. 22

The grant money would come from a special Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Maintenance Fund.

Energize Kākou participants were asked to share their thoughts about how renewable energy developers should interact with host-communities.

The Kona Community Aquatic Center near Old Kona Airport Park will temporarily close for a large facility upgrade project.

Those planning to attend the next quarterly community meeting to discuss plant operations at Puna Geothermal Venture will need to update their schedules.

The meeting will focus on the draft environmental assessment for implementation of the Waiākea Uka Park Master Plan.

Linda Winer of Newsday called it “an engaging chamber musical infused with intimate, emotionally perceptive, nonstop songs.” Maya Phillips of The New York Times summed it up as “a story impressively freed, not trapped, by its physical and creative limitations.” Jeremy Gerard of Bloomberg said it is a “giddily sorrowful eulogy for a brief marriage.”

Black Sands Beach subdivision is expanding its community garden with the help of committed volunteers and education.

About 100 Waipiʻo Valley kūpuna, farmers, ʻohana and their supporters are blocking the 1.5-mile road that leads to the black sand beach and agricultural community.

Hawaiʻi County invites the community to a Peace Walk with the Mayor on Sept. 18 to kick off the global Peace Week.

Kahakai Boulevard in Hawaiian Beaches will be closed for the next several hours due to an ongoing investigation.

During the pandemic, many schools added water filling stations to prevent students from sharing drinking fountains to limit the possibility of exposure to COVID-19.

Residents of Kona will have the chance to chat with officers from the Kona Community Policing section of the Hawai‘i Police Department over a hot cup of coffee on two occasions in September.

The community stepped up earlier this summer for keiki in need and the Hawaiʻi Police Department says mahalo.