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“We know we need housing for all, but to do this here, where we know so many people are struggling, is magical,” Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green said during the blessing of a tiny home village for the homeless in North Kona.

Highway 11 now is open between Konawaena School Road and Haleki’i Street. It had been closed due to a car crash.

Samuel Imaizumi, 47, was charged with felony assault of the two police officers and resisting arrest.

Large capacity cesspools, which service 20 or more people per day, have been banned in the United States since 2005.

Prior to its discovery in 10 whale and dolphin host species across the Pacific, the virus was found in only a single marine mammal worldwide, a Longman’s beaked whale stranded on Maui in 2010.

House Bill 550 would would require the Hawai‘i Department of Education to offer training for teachers, educational officers and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.

The Hawai‘i State Department of Health reports that water sample retesting results showed enterococci levels no longer exceed the threshold level.

Guests aboard a vessel with the touring company Hawaiian Adventures Kona watched the wildlife encounter on Tuesday during the morning whale watch tour.

A man, identified as 43-year-old Ebn Wandell of Hilo, walked into a management office and stated he had a bomb in the bag he was carrying, police said.

John Bull Macomber, 51 of Kona, was arrested and charged with robbery, assault and drug offenses.

The 2023 Environmental Legislative Caucus package includes bills to establish green fees, create a tax credit for cesspool conversion and implement a soil health initiative.

A Hawaiian monk seal died at Ke Kai Ola, the Marine Mammal Center’s hospital in Kailua-Kona after suffering a severe shark bite.

Twenty-three motorists were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant during the week of Jan. 16-22, according to Hawai‘i Police Department.

A high surf advisory is in effect until 6 a.m. Friday for west-facing shores of the Big Island.

Geologist Frank Trusdell will talk about the historic 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa and what we’ve learned from it.

Christine E. Wormuth, the U.S. Secretary of the Army, toured Pōhakuloa Training Area, which wants to extend its lease that expires in 2029 with the State of Hawaiʻi.

A Hilo judge ordered the immediate release of Albert “Ian” Schweitzer on Tuesday, ending Schweitzer’s 130-year sentence more than 20 years after it began.

Rancey Sonny Kawika Lee, 35 of Pāhoa, was charged after an armed robbery of a fast food restaurant in a shopping center in Pāhoa.

Benjamin Kawika Jerin-Kealoha, 46 of Ocean View, was charged with stealing a Jeep rental car, resisting an order to stop and methamphetamine possession following his arrest on Jan. 21 in Kona.

Fifty years ago nēnē, a rare goose and the Hawaiʻi State bird, was a species on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 30 geese in the wild statewide. They are still endangered and federally protected.