East Hawai‘i News

A Big Island man faces several charges following a recent shoplifting incident.

Awards keep rolling in for the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo women’s soccer team. The team recently was named a United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award winner. The award recognized exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2021-22 academic year. The Vulcan women’s soccer team posted a team grade-point average of 3.40 to rank […]

The 2022-23 school year begins Monday, Aug. 1, and with it comes a change in traffic flow for a portion of the mornings on a Hilo roadway while school is in session.

While our attention is generally drawn to the Island of Hawai‘i’s most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, it is also important to keep watch on the Island of Hawai‘i’s third-most active volcano, Hualālai, which underlies the most populated areas of Kailua-Kona and the central Kona coast.

Several people have been arrested as part of an interagency warrant sweep in Puna.

An East Hawai‘i organization recently honored a Puna police officer for his role in locating a missing 5-year-old.

Daelenn Tokunaga recently added one more accomplishment to her list of accolades.

A University of Hawai‘i at Hilo star — on and off the field — is one step closer to possibly being named National Collegiate Athletic Association Woman of the Year.

School begins next week and The Salvation Army is helping make sure Big Island students return to classrooms with enough supplies to kick off another year of learning.

Big Island police reported at 7:16 p.m. Tuesday that Kaūmana Drive is now open.

A Mountain View man is facing several sexual exploitation charges.

Several students in Hilo now have a good fish story to tell.

Big Island firefighters responded Monday afternoon, July 25, to a structure fire in Pāhoa.

The public will have another chance to learn more about the environmental assessment for Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park 2018 Disaster Recovery Project and provide input during an online meeting Wednesday, July 27.

Three recent Big Island high school grads and three Hawai‘i Community College students are this year’s recipients of scholarships from the HPM Foundation.

One of two teens previously reported as runaways was located during the weekend in good health.

One of the state’s largest gasoline marketers and convenience store operators wants to help a nonprofit organization that assists seriously ill keiki and their families.

Election season is in full swing and the Hawai‘i Democratic Party invites voters to meet its candidates face-to-face before next month’s primary election.

Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, which has a clinic in Hilo, is one of three Hawai‘i Pacific Health medical centers to receive the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke quality achievement award.

It looks like a bus ride on the Big Island will continue to be free of charge for at least another two and a half years.