In Case You Missed It

Mayor-elect Kimo Alameda, Prosecuting Attorney-elect Kelden Waltjen and members of the Hawaiʻi County Council will be sworn in. If you can’t make it in person, the ceremony is also being livestreamed. Alameda, Waltjen and incoming Council Chairman Holeka Inaba will give remarks.

“Both defenses played great,” Konawaena coach Brad Uemoto said. “We couldn’t get nothing moving offensively. I mean, we had spurts and then we just couldn’t finish drives.”

The Postal Service also urges customers to plan ahead and ship as early as possible during the holiday season.

The airline that entered the interisland market in 2019 is reducing its flights between islands by as much as 30% beginning in April of next year and also reshaping it services between the mainland and Hawai‘i beginning in the summer.

From the Kohala coast to the deep jungle of Pāhoa, the island retreats offer an array of eco-sustainable amenities equipped with farm-to-table gardens, yoga studios and saltwater pools.

The crash occurred Sunday afternoon on Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway in North Kona.

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation issued an advisory Sunday night.

Police activity is ongoing in the area.

The Big Island, as always, has plenty to do now that we all might have a little more free time after the Thanskgiving holiday weekend.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is thankful this Thanksgiving holiday weekend for staff, volunteers and all of its partners who work behind the scenes — and even on holidays — to protect it from invasive, non-native introduced pests. You can get involved, too.

The Big Island is “such a dynamic environment that I think we take for granted because most places on Earth don’t have those dramatic changes,” said Steve Lundblad, geology professor at UH-Hilo.

The earthquake happened at 8:40 a.m. Saturday morning 11 miles west-northwest of Volcano at a depth of 13 miles below sea level. It was felt around the island and as far away as Honolulu.

Lataja Andrade was arrested on Nov. 26, after she was found in possession of Ford Fusion reported stolen in August.

Hawai’i Island police report Sutliff allegedly forged six of an elderly person’s checks for a total amount of $1,950 and deposited the funds via ATM into her personal bank account from July 20-29.

While old-fashioned eyes and a notebook are used when field teams are near a volcano, modern volcano observatories also use rapidly collected data and computers to support monitoring. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory computers are ‘trained’ to look for activity and send alerts when a volcano is changing or becoming active.

Anyone with information on the boy’s whereabouts is asked to call police at 808-935-3311.

Brian Riggs, 47, was reported missing on Thanksgiving Day.

‘Shaka, A Story of Aloha’ awarded Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature at 2024 Hawai‘i International Film Festival.

Crews responded to Val Hala Apartments, located at 120 Pu‘ueo St., at 1:41 a.m. When firefighters arrived on scene they discovered flames coming from an apartment on the second floor.

Hilo, Pāhoa, Waimea, Pahala, Kailua-Kona and Keaʻau will host their annual Christmas parades for Hawaiʻi Island communities throughout the next three weeks.