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The banyan is not the only tree receiving attention from a group of volunteer arborists and landscapers who have banded together as the Lāhainā Treescape Restoration Project.

RAPID funding is used for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural disasters.

Hawaiʻi Island Fentanyl Task Force says having more funding would help address the issue of prevention and addiction on Hawai’i Island.

Lazar has been interviewed by detectives with the Hawai‘i Police Department’s Area II Criminal Investigation Section.

Eleven-year-old Kulia Uaiwa-Penn has black hair, brown eyes and weighs 130 pounds.

On Sept. 27, VICE officers executed narcotics search warrants upon a vehicle and residence located on Kino‘ole Street in Hilo and recovered over 46 grams of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

Little fire ants are considered among the world’s worst invasive species. Little fire ants are tiny ants, measuring 1/16 of an inch long, and orange in color. Little fire ants move slowly and stings tend to occur when the ants fall from trees or vegetation onto people, or when infestations become so large that the ants move into yards, homes, and businesses.

Hawai‘i Fire Department responded to the blaze, located at Keaka and Orchid Parkways, at 11:13 p.m. on Sunday.

Festivities will include chef-inspired cuisine, beverages, live music and art, DJ with dancing, vendors, face painting, games and a photo booth for keiki against a backdrop of Hualalai and panoramic views of the Kailua-Kona skyline.

The popular event provides the opportunity for community members and police to have candid conversations and ask questions over a simple cup of joe about topics ranging from sharing personal stories to discussing neighborhood issues.

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Tristen Denis-Silva who was last seen in the Eden Roc Estates Subdivision in Mountain View on Saturday.

The monthly test of Hawaiʻi’s Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System is scheduled for Oct. 2 at 11:45 a.m. This test will include a one-minute Attention Alert Signal.

South Kona farmer 71-year-old Clarence Medeiros Jr. has pulled up some large kalo before, but he — and it turns out the rest of the world — had never seen a taro corm that big until it came out of one of his parcels.

In looking at how emergency access can improve in communities, voters in the latest Big Island Now poll had one clear answer: build more roads.

Speed appears to be the primary factor in this investigation. An autopsy was ordered to determine the exact cause of death. The man’s identity is being withheld pending positive identification and notification of next of kin.

For eight weeks during the summer, the interns received help from Subaru staff mentors to complete real-life science and technology projects in a professional setting and working on important projects that will help the telescope prepare for the future.

The opportunities include Landscape Scale Restoration grants, Community Wildfire Defense grants, and Wildland-Urban Interface grants. All three opportunities are funded by the US Forest Service and full details are available through the Hawaiʻi Awards and Notices Data System.

New results from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, or KCWI, which was designed by Caltech’s Edward C. Stone Professor of Physics Christopher Martin and his team, are the first to show direct light emitted by the largest and most hidden portion of the cosmic web: the crisscrossing wispy filaments that stretch across the darkest corners of space between galaxies. The KCWI instrument is based at the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Maunakea on the Big Island.

The flagship campus of the 10-campus system placed No. 57 in the U.S. and in the No. 201–250 tier worldwide. That’s out of more than 25,000 colleges and universities in the world (top 250 qualifies as the world’s top 1%).

Upon arriving on scene near the intersection of Ma’a Way and Kaiwi Street at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, officers located a 70-year-old Kailua-Kona man with visible injuries to his head and facial area. The victim related that while sitting on rock wall, he was approached by a male party who demanded his backpack and cellphone. The suspect then told him, “Give me your backpack or I’m going to shoot you!”