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This season’s Madeline Schatz-Harris Youth Concerto Competition will be held virtually via recorded auditions, focusing on the winds, brass, percussion and piano families of instruments.

The summit aimed to break down silos and drive shared priority agreements that can catalyze sweeping policy shifts for all of the islands.

A new review paper, led by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researchers, was recently published to educate medical professionals in the United States and around the world as they encounter an increasing number of patients suffering from the disease.

Out of a pool of 44 candidates, the Hawaiʻi County Police Commission selected four finalists: one is an internal candidate, two others have direct ties to the Big Island, and the fourth is from Honolulu.

The young ‘ākeʻāke was caught on camera making its way out of its high-elevation burrow on Mauna Loa about a month before the current eruption and lava flow began.

The only candidate who already works for the Hawai’i Police Department is Maj. Sherry Bird, a 24-year veteran.

Hawai‘i police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating 18-year-old Kira Kaeha.

The leading edge of Mauna Loa’s fissure 3 lava flow is approximately 2 miles from Daniel K. Inouye Highway.

The new Council was inaugurated and sworn in during the Hawai‘i County Inaugural Ceremony on Monday afternoon at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium in Hilo.

The Christmas parade starts at 10 a.m. at Kamakoa Park (skatepark) and ends at the Waikōloa School.

Thousands of vehicles are taking the 4.5-mile route on Old Saddle Road daily for a chance to see Mauna Loa’s lava flow.

Josh Green, the state’s ninth governor, names affordable housing, homelessness, poverty and climate change as key issues for his administration during his inauguration in Honolulu on Monday.

The Hyundai Elantra was originally reported stolen Nov. 4 from an Ocean View business.

The first robotic scrubber already is deployed in the 230,000-square-foot Mauka Concourse at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu.

Twenty Hawai‘i National Guard [HING] servicemembers were activated today to assist Hawai‘i County with the ongoing Mauna Loa eruption.

Hawai‘i Island initiatives will receive $18.5 million, a portion of the $306.8 million in capital improvement project funding announced by then-Gov. David Ige on Sunday.

“The [Mauna Loa] lava flow is advancing sideways to the west and east about as fast as it is moving forward,” said Ken Hon, Scientist-in-Charge of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The Food Basket, Hawaii Island’s food bank, will be holding four ʻOhana Food Drop distributions this month to help alleviate low food security during the holiday season.

George Kahumoku received the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Artists’ 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. In this interview, Kahumoku describes a Hawaiian culture that nurtured his life as a musician, his artistic routine, and the “accident” that made winning Grammys possible. Maui Now writer Gary Kubota interviews him.

The Mauna Loa eruption viewing area along the Daniel K. Inouye Highway has now reopened after Hawai’i County detonated an unexploded ordnance found in lava rocks on Sunday Morning.