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This month’s first event will be held Wednesday, Feb. 8. All three events will run from 8 to 10 a.m.

Kūpuna can learn to embrace technology rather than fear it at free webinars offered by AARP Hawaiʻi and Senior Planet.

Bill 22 proposes the creation of the Animal Control and Protection Agency. This bill follows the county’s pilot program when Hawaii Police Department took over animal control duties in July 2021.

February is Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiian Language Month.

Experts anticipate up to two inches of snowfall and freezing rain tonight. Travel on summit roadways may become very difficult to impossible.

The 30th anniversary Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival put a spotlight on not just the cherry blossoms in Church Row Park but also Japanese tradition and heritage.

Nationally, in 2019, 49% of drivers who were killed in crashes and were tested for drugs, tested positive.

A third victim was transported to a hospital, where he is currently in stable condition.

Recruits undertake six months of academy training and four months of field training, once they’re hired.

To improve system reliability, Hawaiian Electric will conduct quarterly aerial inspections of its major overhead transmission lines from Feb. 7-10.

In the 1980s, Akeakamai was the best-known of the “language” dolphins in Louis Herman’s animal language studies at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu.

Outplanting sites include two owned by Kamehameha Schools, and a third home to a tree found nowhere else in the world.

The mysterious blue swirl and green laser light show captured by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera at the Subaru Telescope atop Maunakea on the Big Island inspired a lot of different ideas as to what they could be, but the explanations aren’t as out of this world as some might think.

Police say 52-year-old Roger Tolar of Hilo was located in Kona.

The League is a fraternal organization, which preserves the history and traditions of the Corps, while promoting patriotism and volunteer activities.

Over a hundred pounds of trash were collected.

While tako is a common name for the octopus in the Aloha State, it is of Japanese origin. The Hawaiian word for octopus is he’e.

Kailua-Kona’s Tahitian Dance competition is back.

On Jan. 6, Kanaloa Octopus Farm was sent the letter, which said the state’s Division of Aquatic Resources learned the facility “is propagating Octopus cyanea and attempting to rear juvenile individuals.” Without a permit, even the temporary possession of Octopus cyanea specimens less than one pound in weight (including newly hatched larvae) is unlawful.

Hawai’i Island Police said upon examination of the weapon Aina Cachero possessed when he was shot by an officer, it was “found to not be a functioning firearm.”