East Hawai‘i News

Update: Missing 16-year-old girl from Puna was located in good health.

The college in Hilo on the Big Island was recently recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Fulbright Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.

Just three Big Island rain gauges measured less than 100% of their average rainfall for February, with several spots in Kaʻū and on the windward side of the island recording rain totals up to nearly six times greater than average.

The Hawai‘i Police Department says 44-year old Ronald Kahihikolo of Ocean View was arrested just before 11 a.m. Saturday near the 39.5-mile marker on Highway 19 in Hāmākua, north of Hilo, after a five-day manhunt.

One of two security checkpoints at Hilo International Airport is down. Because of that, travelers catching a flight Sunday morning, March 12, should arrive no later than two hours prior to their flight.

After stirring earlier today, it looks like Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire, might not reawaken after all.

The goal of Friday’s “Settle The Score” rally and sign-waving event was not just to raise awareness about a recent rash of school violence and bullying, but to also open people’s eyes to the hard reality that keiki everywhere face the same kind of injustice and start the conversation about about how the community can come together to make Big Island schools and those beyond safer.

The eruption of Kīlauea, which began on Jan. 5 and was confined within Halema‘uma‘u crater, has paused after 61 days of lava activity. There also is no active lava within Moku‘āweoweo caldera at the summit of Mauna Loa.

The plight of the Nākoa, a 94-foot luxury yacht that spent nearly two weeks grounded in Honolua Bay on Maui only to be freed from the rocky shoreline and then sink in about 800 feet of water, is not the only yacht plot to unfold in Hawai‘i waters during the past decade.

Other than a few sightings in the Captain Cook area on the Big Island’s west side and Hāmākua on the east side, no one else has seen or spoken to 42-year-old Landon Fairbanks of Kailua-Kona since about noon on Aug. 3, 2022.

Kailea Kekipi was found in good health in Hilo.

Harris was last seen at about midnight March 3 on 31st Avenue in Hawaiian Paradise Park, wearing a black shirt and blue shorts.

The unidentified man observed on video surveillance is described as possibly in his 20s, having a thin build and a fair complexion with dark colored hair. He was last seen wearing a pink hooded jacket.

Mother Nature has teased many of us with a few breaks, psyching us out with sunny and blue skies, before 10 minutes later turning the faucet back on full blast. It’s been cold and windy. The weather has definitely been more than a bit dismal. That doesn’t mean, however, we have to be.

In its response to a wrongful death lawsuit, the Boy Scouts of America admits only that 11-year-old Manny Carvalho died Aug. 28, 2022, “due to a gunshot while attending a Boy Scout Troop 19 Family Fun Day at Camp Honokāia.”

Ryden Watson-Beck was located in Mountain View shortly after police issued an advisory seeking help finding him Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The high wind warning is in effect until 6 a.m. Thursday, with a wind advisory for much of the rest of the island also in effect. The high surf warning will remain until 6 a.m. Thursday.

Turns out, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weren’t just on the Big Island last week for the blessing of the Grace Parish Center at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Parish in Kailua-Kona. They also made a stop at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park with their daughter Chelsea and her family.

Big Island police report that 14-year-old Serenity Salmo-Kāʻawa was found Feb. 25 in Hilo.

Beginning Feb. 16 in East Hawai’i, back-to-back Kona Lows followed by persistent showers ushered in by returning trade winds drenched places from Honomū to Pāhala, but the rain finally stopped long enough on Saturday to give the saturated ground a chance to dry out a little, at least in Hilo.