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After conferring with the Hawai‘i County prosecuting attorney’s office, police on Wednesday arrested and charged 39-year-old Sergey Anatolyevich Tkachuk of Pāhoa with an array of offenses.

The proposed Hawai‘i County operating budget for the next fiscal year includes estimated revenues and appropriations of more than $831.6 million, with the suggested capital budget seeking more than $358 million for capital improvement projects on the Big Island.

In just four months on the job, Hawaiʻi Police Department Chief Ben Moszkowicz has created and implemented a new recruitment effort to fill the vacancies of 67 sworn officers.

A bill that would create a new cabinet-level Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity and Resilience and a new chapter in Hawaiʻi County code to govern it is moving forward.

Work to prevent rockfalls along Waipiʻo Valley Road on Hawaiʻi Island will begin on May 22 with the road to be closed to all traffic when construction is underway.

Capt. T. N. Simeona, the pound master for the Kohala area on the Big Island near the end of the 19th century, was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 30, 1890. His story was told and his name added to the police memorial wall at the Hilo Police Station on Monday during the Hawai‘i Police Department’s National Police Week ceremony.

Families celebrated the sobriety of six graduates, and the 21st anniversary of the Big Island Drug Cthat has helped more than 350 people get their lives back on track in Hawaiʻi County.

Over the past year, detectives have interviewed multiple witnesses and had forensic testing of evidence completed.

Alec Lyle Timpson, 30, turned himself in to Hawai‘i police Sunday at 11:25 a.m., at the Kealakehe Police Station after police issued a media release describing the vehicle involved in the collision.

For Big Island Now’s new 30-second poll we ask: What advice would you give today’s graduating high school seniors?

The proposed new Hawaiʻi County Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity and Resilience would establish a new cabinet-level office responsible for coordinating and managing policies to promote sustainability and resilience in response to the impacts of climate change and other natural and manmade hazards.

During the closure of the Wai‘ōhinu facility in Kaʻū, which begins May 18, residents are encouraged to use the Ocean View and Pāhala recycling and transfer stations.

Since 2020, the Omerod family has taken in more than 20 foster children and counting from East Hawaiʻi. Michelle Omerod said: “God knows it’s not easy,” but added it’s rewarding.

With only five of the Hawaiʻi County Fire Department’s 16 dispatch positions filled with working full-time employees, it is impossible to fill all 21 weekly 8-hour shifts with more than a lone dispatcher.

Lane closure schedules can change at any time without further notice. All projects are weather permitting.

Resurfacing work is planned for a portion of Kalanianaʻole Street in Keaukaha from May 15-26 and a part of Keawe Street in Downtown Hilo will be limited to one lane overnight from May 15-18.

So far this year, there have been 355 DUI arrests on the Big Island compared with 372 during the same period last year, a decrease of 4.6 percent.

HB 192, introduced by Rep. Nicole Lowen, transitions the state from selling fluorescent light bulbs to more efficient LED bulbs beginning in January 2025.

Nonprofit PAL (Permanently Affordable Living) Kaua‘i is in escrow for a 5.5-acre property in Pepe‘ekeo, which would be its first project on the Big Island.

May 2023 marks the 99th anniversary of a sequence of explosive eruptions from the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island that occurred throughout 16 days from May 11-27, 1924.