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The findings of a new study commissioned by the Hawaiʻi Foodbank detailing the state of food insecurity throughout Hawai’i in 2023 is setting off alarm bells.

The Big Island certainly isn’t calming down heading into the summer months. In fact, it looks like the enterainment, festival, music and event scenes are heating up.

The new tools are part of a package of improvements the Hawai‘i Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is rolling out to make the claims process easier.

Darde Gamayo is in the running to win $25,000 and have one of her food dishes photographed and published in “Taste of Home” magazine. She is up against 19 other home cooks nationwide.

Because of her age and a medical condition that requires her to take medication, 75-year-old Glynda Evangelista is consider an endangered missing person. Her family continues to seek answers.

The four separate daily convoys from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. between Pōhakuloa Training Area to Kawaihae began May 29.

Meali‘i Roney was last seen April 19 at her mother’s residence on Lehua Lane in Ocean. It is unknown what she was wearing.

The initiative drew more than 250 Big Island youths between 11 and 24 years old and participation from 24 schools.

The program introduces students to a wide variety of concepts including power and contemporary world politics since 1945, with an emphasis on the U.S. role.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., highlighted the achievements of the 2024 legislative session to unlock more affordable housing across the state in a ceremony at the State Capitol. Green underscored the collaborative efforts behind several significant bills aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis. 

The state’s new Respiratory Disease Dashboard shows that COVID-19 is at the yellow, or medium activity level, meaning the virus is circulating at higher levels than would be expected based on historic trends.

On Aug. 24, 2022, at approximately 6:20 a.m., South Hilo patrol officers responded to the Puainako Street extension near mile marker 3 for a report of a male who had reportedly been struck by a vehicle.

According to HVO’s report Tuesday morning, the unrest is primarily in the form of intermittent low-frequency energy signals typical of magma movement. The number of individual earthquakes remained low, with less than 10 events detected.

A new University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) report, authored by UHERO Research Economist Rachel Inafuku, uses data from ACS to take a deeper look into Hawaiʻi’s gender pay gap to further understand the role of gender in the workforce.

The SCHHA Hawai‘i Island & Kaua‘i Mokupuni Meeting is hosted every fourth Tuesday the month at 6 p.m.

U.S. Senate, unanimously adopting resolution introduced by Hawai’i Democrat Sen. Maie Hirono, and President Joe Biden mark May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Angelique Bergmann was found in good health Friday morning. No one had seen nor heard from her since May 24.

The program at Koana Cultural Community is one of onlly 10 throughout the state to be awarded funs fojfrom the new Museum Without Walls Arts Education Initiative of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation.

Applicants should possess a solid commitment to community, relevant expertise for the board or commission on which they want to serve and a willingness to dedicate their time to public service.

It wasn’t somberness or melancholy that kept the thousands of people gathered on the shores of Reeds Bay on Sunday evening in Hilo, it was reverence; a shared sense of honor and respect for fellow community members going through the same experience.