East Hawaii News

VOLCANO — The Volcano School of Arts and Sciences has a new part-time staff member who not only helps keep people safe from COVID, but also provides hands-on learning and a possible future career path for students and others.

Accolades keep rolling in for a member of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Vulcans baseball team.

The 71-year-old was found Tuesday, May 17, in good health, according to police.

A pair of students at Kea’au High School are organizing a walk-out this week as a way to demonstrate against sexual assault that they say is too prevalent on campus.

Two members of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Vulcans baseball team have earned post-season Pacific West Conference honors.

The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo has re-opened its tennis courts after making several improvements and additions.

Big Island police are asking the public again for its help to find a missing Hilo man.

“Today, we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.”

The Hawaiʻi Police Department is again giving island residents the chance to chat with officers over a cup of hot coffee.

A future astronaut, one burgeoning paleontologist and hundreds of others of all ages and sizes came to space out Saturday, May 14, at Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo for AstroDay.

Hawai‘i Community College celebrated its first in-person commencement ceremony in two years Friday, May 13, and while faculty, administration and speakers reflected on the challenges — and triumphs — throughout the pandemic, their message to graduates was not to look back, but to move forward and leave their mark on the future.

The county is reminding the public that Waipiʻo Valley Road will be closed, except for emergency vehicles, next week.

Deep beneath Pāhala, a town located in the southern part of the Island of Hawaiʻi, is currently the most seismically active region of the Hawaiian Islands.

The world now has an image of the giant occupying the darkness at the center of the Milky Way thanks to a collaborative effort among more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes from around the globe, including 11 observatories, two of which are on the Big Island.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is one of eight parks tabbed to be part of a national pilot program focused on climate change education.

Customers of the Paʻauilo Post Office are being notified that the PO Box section, parcel lockers and mail drop slot will be temporarily closed to accommodate construction work.

A new episode in a video series created and hosted by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park rangers invites everyone to learn about the single gourd drum used in hula.

One of the Big Island astronomy sector’s signature events is set to blast off and everyone is invited.

Put on your cape, shine your green lantern, don your superhero or anime cosplay or just go in your everyday clothes. Whatever you do, don’t miss your chance to pick up a free comic book this weekend at your local library.

Rainy weather continues on the Big Island, apparent by heavy downpours, thunderstorms and the issuing of flood advisories the afternoon of Monday, May 2. But according to a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, the wet weather hasn’t been anything out of the ordinary.