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Since 2005, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has provided more than $21.5 million in per pupil grant funding to 17 Hawaiian-focused public charter schools.

It’s the week of Thanksgiving. People are prepping but are they doing turkey, kalua pig or both?

Momentum for revitalization of the peninsula and Banyan Drive areas in Hilo picked up steam after Hawai‘i Gov. Josh Green signed an emergency proclamation in July to help clean up, secure and demolish the former Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Hotel property.

Operation Christmas Child — created and run by Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization — collects and delivers shoeboxes to children in more than 170 countries.

With this new system, ʻImiloa will host the first 10k-resolution planetarium in Hawaiʻi and one of the first of its kind in the country.

Researchers are interested in features called strike-slip faults on these moons because they can facilitate the exchange of surface and subsurface materials, potentially creating environments conducive for life

For the first time since 2000, a gun buyback event was held in the State of Hawaiʻi, with 494 firearms collected on Oʻahu.

In an effort to better manage large crowds of surfers and commercial instructors in Hawai‘i Island’s Kahulu‘u Bay, four surf instruction companies were awarded permits in a first-of-its-kind lottery, Friday.

Aiden Bowers was located in good health Nov. 17.

Of the roughly 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, only about 793 are CALEA accredited.

The grant will help to reinforce and strengthen Native Hawaiians’ connections to ‘ohana, mo‘omeheu and ‘aina.

On Thursday morning, Area I Criminal Investigation Division personnel met with Kamehameha Schools administrators, who reported that a former employee of the school embezzled more than $360,000 over a period of approximately three years.

The teen was last seen on Oct. 27 at 3 p.m. in Kailua-Kona.

Little fire ants, coconut rhinoceros beetles and more could wreak havoc in the Hawaiian Islands.

Every year recently, major fires have happened: Mana Road in 2021, Leilani in 2022, and the series of fires this year, on Aug. 8.

One noteworthy collaboration is with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes.

An extended power outage could leave portions of the Department of Water Supply’s water systems empty and customers with no water.

In recent years, the use of illicit fentanyl has reached epidemic proportions on the mainland and Hawai‘i.

Update at 3:29 p.m. on Friday: The high surf advisory has been extended to 6 a.m. Saturday. Large and rough surf associated with strong trades and a northeast swell will maintain hazardous conditions along east facing shores through tonight. Update at 7:24 a.m. on Friday: The National Weather Service extended the high surf advisory through […]

In total, 1,176 housing units in the Big Island’s affordable housing pipeline will be impacted by the infusion of funds.