Featured

Tracie Yoshimoto, who shopped at the Most Irresistible Shop with her mom when she was a kid, has purchased the business from its founder and long-time Hilo businesswoman Sally Mermel.

Pending appeal, suspensions could affect the Hilo Vikings for next Saturday’s Division I championship game. Suspensions will also affect Kea`au High for a game next season.

Circuit Judge Ronald Ibarra ruled that the director of the Department of Environmental Management had not been properly served with documents.

The galaxy is being observed as it was 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 5% of its current age.

College of Business and Economics major Mark Tokuuke finished first in the international version of the Business Strategy Game, a popular business simulation used in undergraduate and MBA programs all over the world. UHH photo.

The company is owned by the same woman who bought Nani Mau Gardens, and who earlier this year proposed buying a partial interest in the Naniloa.

The Hilo native is still searching for his first postseason hit after going 0-for-5 against the Pirates and Dodgers.

Environmental Management officials will be at the showing of “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” to talk about the County’s Plastic Bag Reduction Bill.

Following a search of a Ka`u home, a HOVE man was charged with multiple drug offenses, a grand jury indictment and a warrant for violating probation.

The Vulcans have four matches left in the season, starting with a road contest Wednesday at Hawai`i Pacific University.

George Kahumoku, Martin Pahinui, Brad Bordessa and Anuhea Lim will perform Nov. 15 in a benefit for Hale Ho‘ola Hamakua Critical Access Hospital.

Free, mandatory disaster relief training sessions for volunteers begins Nov. 16 and continue on Nov. 23.

The proposed amendments would ban stand-up paddleboards in the pond, and also require that boat fishing be done only from anchored vessels.

The remotely controlled Lu`ukai will complement the university’s manned research submersibles, the Pisces IV and Pisces V.

The 48-year-old man was spotted several days after leaving Hilo to row along the Big Island’s windward coast, but was not seen again until this past Wednesday.

The measure adds “unsafe flora” to the county ordinance dealing with refuse that can be cleared from private property by the county.

With Hawaii’s Shield Law now defunct, can an open-source program made by hackers help to protect journalists and their sources?

Hawaiian Airlines announced new direct flights between Los Angeles and Kona next summer.

The popular national park — the Big Island’s largest visitor attraction — had visitors waiting at 6 a.m. for the opening of the front gate.

The ban on new genetically modified crops on the Big Island requires another vote, while the prohibition on hydraulic fracturing via wells is final.