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Nonprofits pursuing projects that strengthen the Big Island’s future are invited to apply for fiscal year 2025-26 Impact Grants program funding.

While the situation has improved statewide compared with before the 2024-25 school year, 4 of the 9 school bus routes throughout the state still suspended are on the Big Island. Fortunately, offiicials report new drivers are being trained.

This is a week when each of the top 10 things to do on the Big Island has a vibe — a personality — all its own. A unique signature, if you will, the others don’t necessarily share or emulate. Check them out now to see for yourself!

The in-person and written testimony was overwhelmingly against the passage of the bill, which will have its second reading on Aug. 6.

Big Island police are asking if anyone knows or can help identiify the man captured in a photo taken by another person involved in the June 25 South Kohala incident.

Councilmember Rebecca Villegas introduced Resolution 234-25, which was discussed Tuesday during the Policy Committee on Environmental and Natural Resource Management.

Annual event gives students the tools they need to engage their communities on issues around civil liberties and civil rights plus firsthand experience lobbying members of Congress to advocate for their First Amendment rights.

Suspect is seen on video surveillance picking up the wallet outside a Kailua-Kona shopping center, put it inside a gray Jeep Wrangler and then leave. Do you know her?

Nonprofit dedicated to supporting Hawai‘i’s homeless children, serving more than 1,600 keiki each year on O‘ahu, Maui and the Big Island, will use the funds for its college dorm residency program for homeless young women.

Work through 4 p.m. today and July 24 requires separate closures on Kuakini and Mamalahoa Highways while crews install new infrastructure. Motorists should plan accordingly.

Both of Hawaiʻi’s US House representatives voted against a $9 billion spending cut package that rolls back previously approved federal funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

A 3rd Circuit Court judge accepted the guilty plea of Joseph Tibbs for the following charges: two counts of first-degree promotion of child abuse and four counts of first-degree sexual assault.

The women were extricated from deep within the tangled debris of the downed banyan tree, which fell the afternoon of July 12 on Kilauea Avenue, with preliminary observations indicating they were likely struck by falling tree limbs; police do not suspect foul play at this time and autopises will be conducted later this week to determine their exact cause of death.

28-year-old Ha‘aheo Chan of Mountain View faces charges in connection with two new separate incidents involving alleged vehicle theft and assault.

The July 19 temblor that caused the tsunami watch excitement struck roughly 45 miles northeast from the epicenter of a 1952 magnitude-9 earthquake that did trigger a destructive Pacific tsunami that caused damage in Hawai‘i, including on the Big Island.

48-year-old Sarah Coultas and her daughter Violet Coultas-Benson were last seen together at 4 p.m. July 6 at the top of Miloli‘i Road in South Kona. Do you have any information about their whereabouts? Police are asking for your help to find them.

Governor signs emergency proclamation, activates Hawai‘i National Guard to respond when needed to help, as wildfire threat expectd to increase heading into hottest months of summer, exacerbating already existing abnormally dry and drought conditions throughout much of the state, including most of the Big Island.

Lane closure schedules can change at any time without notice. All projects are weather permitting. Check to see if any of the planned closures will impact your commute during the next week.

Hawai‘i Island police so far this year have arrested 497 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant on Big Island roadways; a total of 964 DUI arrests were made during all of last year.

37-year-old Aysa Kalei Delos Santos was sentenced July 17 in Hilo Circuit Court to 10 years each for second-degree promoting a dangerous drug and second-degree attempted promoting a dangerous drug, with the sentences to run concurrently, or at the same time.