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The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary aviation investigation report about the crash of an Hawaiʻi Life Flight air ambulance that was on its way to Waimea to pick up a patient.

Kīlauea’s summit eruption continues and is confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.

The National Weather Service hs issued a wind advisory for Big Island summits till 6 p.m. this evening.

A Puna man was charged with attempted murder following a shooting that took place on Christmas Day in the Leilani Estates Subdivision.

A Hilo man is facing charges of sexual assault after a domestic incident on Monday night.

Lava flows have inundated much of the crater floor, which is nearly 300 acres.

The Big Island has 5,119 cesspools that are ranked Priority Level 1, the most in the state.

The unknown pedestrian who was hit left the scene before Puna patrol officers arrived. He is believed to be a young local male with brown curly hair, wearing a white T-shirt and gold chain.

A 38-year-old man from Puna died during an incident with three Hawai’i Island police officers who were responding to a report of an active attempted suicide call.

The fire at the family’s home in ʻĀinaloa happened during the early evening of Dec. 30. Fortunately, no one was home at the time, but the blaze caused $250,000 in damage and killed three of the family’s five dogs.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a badly burned body on Banyan Drive in Hilo.

A new statewide law banning the intentional release of balloons in Hawaiʻi — and the strongest such measure in the country — went into effect Jan. 1, 2023.

Several new State of Hawai’i laws are set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023 that relate to areas including tobacco taxes, catalytic converters, ethics training, fireworks, ranked-choice voting and even balloons.

Years of restoration work and ungulate control efforts in the Pu‘u Maka‘ala Natural Area Reserve could have been undone had lava flows gone a different direction.

In 2022 the Big Island community experienced extreme weather, earthquakes, fires and two erupting volcanoes; mourned tragedies and the death of a revered kumu hula; and witnessed the loss of historic buildings, including the Hōlualoa Theater.

Kona Aquatic Center is back to competing standards with the recent installment of eight new starting blocks at the county pool to replace the ones that were “condemned.”

The deal is expected to close in early 2023.

Being at overcapacity is a problem routinely experienced at Kona Community Hospital — and also at the Big Island’s other primary hospital, Hilo Medical Center, according to spokespersons for each medical facility.

Christmas, or Mele, is nine-years-old and believed to be the oldest living ʻakiapōlāʻau in the wild.

This morning, Hawaii Life Flight posted on its social media the names of two of the three crew members who went missing after their medical transport aircraft apparently crashed on Dec. 15 in waters off the ʻAlenuihāhā Channel between Maui and the Big Island.