In Case You Missed It

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.

The summit of Maunakea can be one of the most dangerous places in Hawaiʻi because of the extreme altitude and rapidly changing weather conditions.

At Old Kona Airport Beach Park, a flight nurse, a paramedic and a pilot were mourned during a sunset vigil.

A Hilo Grand Jury indicted a Hilo man in connection to a murder that occurred in 2019.

Maunakea Rangers from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo for Maunakea Stewardship plowed snow on the road to the summit today.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Center for Maunakea Stewardship expects the road to the summit will remain closed for at least the next couple of days.

A week ago, the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park released a Finding of No Significant Impact on the plan to move forward with the park’s Disaster Recovery Project following the 2018 eruption and summit collapse of Kīlauea volcano.

The Hawai‘i County Police Commission has selected finalist Benjamin T. Moszkowicz to be the next chief of police.

On Tuesday, the Hawaiʻi County Police Commission wrapped up two days of public testimony and questioning of the four finalists for police chief, with inquiries about a questionable hotel stay and a discrimination lawsuit.

Seismicity and deformation patterns remain unsettled, which means there remains a potential the KIlauea eruption will resume or a new eruption can occur at or near the summit of Kīlauea. But it is unexpected Mauna Loa’s eruption will resume.

Today, at 9:35 a.m., the volcano’s status report said the Northeast Rift Zone eruption of Mauna Loa may still be active at the main fissure 3 vent, but “all 2022 lava flows appear to be inactive.”

Moon, a mature female humpback whale, made headlines recently for completing a more than 4,000-mile migration with a severe spinal injury.

Hawaiʻi County has launched its official mobile application, Kāhea.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park invites the community to participate in a public meeting regarding protection and potential future use of the remote 16,451-acre Kahuku-Pōhue parcel the park acquired earlier this year.

The caller claimed there was a Caucasian male at Kea‘au High School with a firearm who had shot multiple students in a classroom and was now roaming the campus — but it was all a hoax.

Out of a pool of 44 candidates, the Hawaiʻi County Police Commission selected four finalists: one is an internal candidate, two others have direct ties to the Big Island, and the fourth is from Honolulu.

The new Council was inaugurated and sworn in during the Hawai‘i County Inaugural Ceremony on Monday afternoon at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium in Hilo.

Josh Green, the state’s ninth governor, names affordable housing, homelessness, poverty and climate change as key issues for his administration during his inauguration in Honolulu on Monday.

“The [Mauna Loa] lava flow is advancing sideways to the west and east about as fast as it is moving forward,” said Ken Hon, Scientist-in-Charge of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

George Kahumoku received the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Artists’ 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. In this interview, Kahumoku describes a Hawaiian culture that nurtured his life as a musician, his artistic routine, and the “accident” that made winning Grammys possible. Maui Now writer Gary Kubota interviews him.