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Within the state budget, $16.2 million will be used to improve the hospital’s HVAC system, central utility plant, site utilities, and other building infrastructure to mitigate the risk of the hospital’s closure. An additional $2.3 million will enable the hospital to maintain its accreditation and continue providing potentially life-saving medication for oncology patients.

Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol shared a new agreement intended to inhibit North Korean aggression.

The partnership kicks off with Hawaiian Telcom serving as title sponsor of the statewide Hawai‘i Esports League Championship, a competition for middle and high school students from more than 50 public, private and charter schools.

The measure is a key component to the Ready Keiki initiative led by Lt. Governor Sylvia Luke to expand access to preschool for all Hawaiʻi three- and four-year-olds by 2032.

The cruise ship Quantum of the Seas reported a man overboard at 11:03 p.m. Tuesday evening.

Displaying great courage and loyalty, little mongoose Rikki stands steadfast in the face of danger from two slithering cobras.

Hawaiʻi Island police are asking for information relative to a hit-and-run incident that occurred on the morning of March 25, in the 200-block of West Lanikaula Street in Hilo.

This was one of two incidents within the past two weeks at two of Hawai‘i’s airports where Transportation Security Administration officers discovered prohibited items concealed on the bodies of travelers during a routine screening at the security checkpoint.

The Academy for Hawaiʻi Intelligence Studies Summer Program is a free four-week course offered by the Department of Political Science in University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s College of Social Sciences.

The island of Hawai‘i vacation rental supply was 172,900 available unit nights, up 30.1% from last year.

Kona, Puna and South Hilo Districts each had four arrests. South Kohala had one.

The Big Island was rattled by two additional earthquakes Wednesday night, April 26, following a magnitude-4.2 temblor earlier in the day. The second happened at about 7:30 p.m. north-northeast of Hōnaunau-Nāpōʻopoʻo and the third occurred just after 10 p.m. south of Fern Forest in Puna.

The Federal Aviation Administration is accepting applications for its 2023 air traffic controller program, from May 5 to 8.

After a 37-year career, Hilton Lewis is stepping down from his position as the director of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea.

In honor of Lei Day, the second annual Waikōloa Lei Day Festival will be held on April 30 at several venues, with live music, lei making, craft fair, farmers market and keiki fun zone.

The public school teachers in Hawaiʻi voted 92% in favor of ratifying a new 4-year agreement, which will begin July 1, 2023, according to the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association.

The tumbler struck at 4:31 p.m. and was 7.5 miles east-southeast of Pāhala at depth of 18.3 miles below sea level.

U.S. Coast Guard crews are searching a location about 500-miles south of Kailua-Kona on the Big Island for a cruise ship passenger from Australia who on Tuesday night went overboard in waters about 500 miles south of the Big Island in Hawaiʻi.

The Department of Human Services is extending its application deadline for families seeking funding to send keiki to preschool for the 2023-24 school year.

Eric W. Clough, 42 of Volcano, was indicted by a Hilo grand jury earlier this month for receiving nearly a pound of methamphetamine in a package at the Volcano Post Office a year ago.