East Hawaii News

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.

The county Department of Public Works will take another look at adding some bicycle lanes into a road project underway on a portion of a major corridor in Hilo.

The next phase of the voluntary housing buyout program for properties impacted by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption is underway.

Not even Tropical Storm Darby and the rain it brought as it passed to the south of the island could keep people away from participating Saturday night, July 16, in the 30th Relay For Life of the Big Island.

A Big Island organization whose mission is to empower women and girls through service and advocacy recently awarded several scholarships.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu has extended a high surf warning for south-facing shores of the state, including those of the Big Island.

The Big Island’s fight against cancer will continue — tropical storm or not.

Dona Mokiao has been located in Hilo in good health.

High surf and rough ocean conditions forecast this weekend have led the county to close beach parks along the Big Island’s south-facing shores.

Big Island police are investigating following a bomb call to the Hawai‘i Community College Manono Campus in Hilo.

Darby is now a tropical storm, and despite its weakening trend and forecast track keeping it to the south, the Big Island is likely to still see some impacts. The National Weather Service in Honolulu also issued a tropical storm warning for the state.

What makes a volcano a volcano? This was the topic of a “Volcano Watch” article about 20 years ago. Recent questions from visitors suggest this remains a topic of great interest and deserves revisiting.

Hurricane Darby is forecast to continue weakening as it makes its westward trek to the south of the Big Island, according to the 5 p.m. advisory from the Central Pacific Hurricane Center on Thursday, July 14.

More than 2,000 electric customers in a portion of Hilo were without power for nearly two hours Wednesday night, July 13, because of a tree falling on power lines.

The state is monitoring Hurricane Darby after the now Category 2 and weakening storm crossed into the Central Pacific overnight.