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The Hawaiʻi County fire and emergency medical services 911 system will be combined with the county police dispatch system effective immediately due to staffing shortages, the Hawaiʻi Fire Department announced.

All nine Hawaiʻi Walmart stores are participating in Walmart Wellness Day on May 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The National Weather Service has canceled the wind advisory for the Big Island.

There have been 301 major crashes so far this year compared with 258 during the same period last year.

University of Hawaiʻi engineers have made a 3D-printed wearable sweat sensor.

The Hawai’i Senate and House of Representatives spent several hours taking up last-minute measures Thursday on the final day of the 32nd Hawai’i Legislature, including the proposed state biennium budget that passed both branches.

Detectives charged 52-year-old Christopher Roy Howlind of Kurtistown with second-degree murder following the violent slaying of his mother-in-law, 58-year-old Teri Lynn Apple, in Orchidland Estates in Puna on the Big Island.

Five years ago, volcanic activity at Kīlauea on the Big Island dramatically changed when magma intruded into the lower East Rift Zone. What happened at Kīlauea in 2018?

Partnership means that the Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association will develop and carry Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail sales items in its visitor center park stores and online store.

Hawaiʻi Fire Department crews are working to contain a brushfire that has inundated roughly 150 acres above the Paʻauilo Transfer Station in North Hāmākua.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources’ campaign begins in Waikoloa, where cat feeders have attracted endangered nēnē.

A recognition ceremony to honor the newly promoted department personnel and two Certificate of Merit recipients was held in Hilo on April 26.

Keoni Patrick Keli‘ima Cassidy, 28 of Keauhou, was sentenced to 20 years for class A felony possession of 103 grams of heroin and other drugs on Monday in Kona Circuit Court on the Big Island.  

Zealand Brickwood, 12, has been located in Hilo in good health, according to the Hawaiʻi Island police.

Highway 19 (Mamalahoa Highway) at the 37 mile marker near Paʻauilo has reopened in both directions, according to Hawaiʻi Island Police.

Kupu ʻĀina Corps host sites can include nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses, and State and County government agencies.

Several bills and resolutions were approved or adopted by one or both chambers of the 32nd Hawaiʻi State Legislature and revolving around a wide range of issues, including: guns, coffee, kimichi, sex trafficking, grounded vessels, humpback whales and active shooting drills in schools.

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two 14-year-old girls who were reported as runaways in separate incidents in East Hawai‘i.

A 58-year-old woman who was murdered with a sword during a domestic-related incident on April 28, 2023, in Puna was identified as Teri Lynn Apple.

The 4-year-old female Hawaiian monk seal was observed losing a significant amount of weight and becoming less energetic over the past several weeks.