Dredging at Wailoa became a critical concern for Hawai‘i Island boaters after the Pohoiki boat ramp was surrounded and cut off by lava during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano.

At least 20 houseless individuals living near a canal in downtown Hilo are now taking shelter in temporary shade tents on a vacant gravel lot on the southeast side of Ponahawai Street.

The supplemental budget bill, House Bill 1800, for fiscal year 2025 represents an increase of more than $480 million, with significant funding going to key state priorities.

The Hawai‘i Police Department also recovered a total of 4.86 grams of illicit fentanyl last month, including 4.06 grams in East Hawai‘i and 0.8 grams in West Hawai‘i. That’s enough to kill 2,430 island residents.

The event will run from from 7 to 10 a.m. at Starbucks in Waimea, at the Parker Ranch Center on Hawaiʻi Belt Road.

41-year-old Akito Fukushima of Kanazawa, Japan, who was departing the country early Tuesday morning when the grenades were detected in his bag, was arrested for first-degree terroristic threatening and transported to to the East Hawai’i Detention Facility in Hilo. He remains in custody.

Beginning July 10, the rubbish collection site will be available from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays.

There were about 50 quakes beneath the volcano’s summit and 100 under the upper East Rift Zone compared with 20 and 50 the day before.

In the settlement agreement, the county now acknowledges that it requires a Clean Water Act permit for its wastewater discharges and has committed to apply for the required National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit within six months.

30-year-old Brandon Sanchez faces charges of first-degree theft, first-degree unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle and habitual property crime.

The event will feature activities and resources focused on children and families, in addition to the regular program.

Twenty-seven countries are now in support of a moratorium or precautionary pause on seabed mining for metals used in electric vehicles.

Charges stem from a series of crimes committed between July 3-4, including the theft of a Jeep originally reported stolen on May 18 from the Home Depot parking lot in Hilo, damaging a Toyota 4Runner and Toyota RAV-4, leaving the scene of a traffic collision involving bodily injury, and multiple offenses related to fleeing from police.

The Hilo man’s bail was set at $183,000.

“My perspective is that, like land and water, we need to treat seeds and plant lineages as a public trust,” said Clay Trauernicht.

The telescope funding comes from the NASA Near-Earth Object Observations Program.

On June 2, between 5 and 5:45 a.m., a 53-year-old Puna man was assaulted while visiting Magic Sands Beach in Kailua Kona.

Since the start of Adventure Centers Hawai‘i, the nonprofitraised $3,000 and gave away 500 free climbing memberships.

Police ask anyone with information on the man’s location to call the department’s non-emergency line at 808-935-3311.

Over the past 24 hours, there were approximately 25 earthquakes detected beneath Kaluapele (Kīlauea caldera) and 95 earthquakes detected beneath the Upper East Rift Zone, mostly at depths of 0.6–1.8 miles beneath the ground surface.