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The state-funded, four-year project on Kohala Mountain will manage non-native feral pigs and promote native forest regeneration.

More representation for Hawai‘i County residents is coming to the State Legislature as an additional House seat was created in January due to the rise in the island’s population, according to the 2020 U.S. Census.

The lights are from a survey vessel carrying field scientists conducting monitoring work in a study area that includes an ocean dredged material disposal site several miles offshore of the Hilo coast.

Trimming and maintenance of Waipiʻo Valley Road will being in November, followed by a major three-phase repair and mitigation project to begin in Spring 2023.

After damaging earthquakes, response and recovery take place under the threat of aftershocks.

In Kona, people do double takes when they see a 7-foot towering green creation of spray foam, cardboard, two-by-fours, silicon and fake plants — and realize a real person is inside.

District 2 is the only race left to be decided for the Hawai’i County Council.

The state is renovating the aging jail in Hilo and adding a new roughly $20 million, 48-bed unit, but its not enough to deal with the facilityʻs overcrowding.

A man found dead in a Hilo public pool was ruled to be a suicide, Hawai‘i police reported Wednesday afternoon.

The state Department of Health reported 1,327 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, Oct. 26, bringing the statewide total to 361,817

Featuring eight rooms of terror, each with a different theme, the event promises a scary good time for anyone and everyone who dares to enter.

There are Halloween activities around the Big Island — for keiki to adults. Check out the list that includes haunted houses, witches on the water, a menacing maze and Howl-ween with four-legged friends.

The American Cancer Society’s fifth annual 5K Pink Out Color run is coming up this Saturday.

The crew of the USS Daniel Inouye visited the Big Island over the weekend, giving the public a chance to tour one of the military’s newest destroyers.

Hawaiʻi County said: “The current condition poses substantial endangerment to public health and safety and warrants preemptive and protective action in order to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of the people using the road.”

Emotions ran high Saturday afternoon in Ocean View as residents living in the community on Mauna Loa’s Southwest Rift Zone got an update on the sleeping giant’s status and had a chance to speak with and ask questions.

The wildlife center has treated about 3,000 birds injured from man-made things like golf balls, power lines, cars, guns and poisons.

After finalists are identified, the public will have the chance to comment on and engage with each of the applicants for the chief’s post.

A public information session about Mauna Loa will be held on Oct. 22 at the Ocean View Community Center from 1 to 3 p.m.

Enforcement action has been taken to close one illegal cesspool at Power Self Storage-Kuakini in Kailua-Kona and two cesspools at Wailuku Professional Plaza in Hilo.