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The family of an 11-year-old Hilo boy accidentally shot and killed at a Boy Scouts of America event in 2022 is now suing the national organization and a local affiliate.

For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Hawaiʻi State House and Senate to operate solemnly online, but Wednesday the public was back and the mood was festive.

An extensive 72-hour search for Captain Cook fisherman Mark Knittle, who fell overboard in waters off Hōnaunau Bay early Sunday, ended Wednesday evening with no signs of the 63-year-old.

In recent weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard has continued to monitor a Russian vessel, believed to be an intelligence gathering ship, off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands.

Jonathan Taum, 50, the officer who supervised the beating of the Hawaiʻi Community Correctional Center inmate and orchestrated the conspiracy to cover it up, received the biggest sentence: 12 years.

A 21-year-old man was arrested Jan. 16 in connection to the deaths of his grandparents in Hilo.

After the retirement Hawaii Police Chief Paul Ferreira in September, many officers described the department as lacking direction and leadership. With the recent hiring of former Honolulu Police Maj. Benjamin T. Moszkowicz they are hopeful this will change.

Moon’s story is about tenacity and tragedy, sadness and anger — a heartbreaking tale that sheds light on the need for more awareness in hopes of saving other humpbacks from the same painful and agonizing fate.

The mansion along Old Mamalahoa Highway in Ninole on the Big Island has been rented for up to $10,000-a-night by celebrities, including Justin Bieber, and was featured in CBS’ “Love Island” and MTV’s “Ex on the Beach”

A 28-inch live ball python was turned in to the Honolulu Zoo Wednesday afternoon under the state’s Amnesty Program.

Willie’s Hot Chicken in Kona is holding a fundraiser on Jan. 13 for Jenny Decker’s solo world sailboat journey to raise awareness for Charcot-Marie-Tooth, an hereditary neurological disease that she has.

Over the past several months, Red, a greyhound-whippet mix has gone from looking relatively healthy to an injured and malnourished animal despite being fed by residents in Ocean View on the Big Island.

While eruptions can be spectacular to watch and experience, they provide a stark reminder of how life on the Big Island can be impacted very quickly by volcanic activity.

New Hawai’i State Attorney General Anne Lopez said she decided that the continued pursuit of the cases of protesters of the Thirty Meter Telescope was not in the best interest of the people of the state.

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Land and Natural Resources is seeking comments on a proposal to protect nearly 100 unencumbered state land parcels across Hawai’i as part of the State Forest Reserves, Natural Area Reserves and Wildlife Sanctuaries systems. 

A man recently urinated into the home of Pele, one of the most active volcanoes in the world.

Of the four finalists for Hawaiʻi County police chief, Benjami Moszkowicz, a 22-year veteran with the rank of major at Honolulu Police Department, was the only person with no law enforcement experience on the Big Island.

Hawai’i County police officer Erhard Autrata and his family are recovering — with community support — from a fire that destroyed the home they built themselves and killed three of their dogs while they were celebrating 10-year-old Mahina’s birthday.

On June 30, 2009, a friend found Kaycee Smith dead in her Orchidland home on the Big Island with a single gunshot wound to her head.

In 2024, the races will flip flop and the men’s Ironman World Championship will be in Kona and the women’s will be in Nice, France.