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Hawai‘i Island police determined Franz Albert-Ludwig Weber was riding a black Trek bicycle heading south on Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway when he rear-ended a green 2015 Motor Coach Industries tour bus stopped on the shoulder.

Parks and Recreation, Public Works team up for complete project that will now provide a parking area at the West Hawai‘i park that can safely accommodate about 80 vehicles.

Commercial fishing could reverse decades of environmental protection and threatens diverse marine life in one of the most pristine, unique ecosystems in the world.

The beach at Pohoiki, near the easternmost point on the the Big Island in the Puna District, grew rapidly in the year following the 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea and has continued to evolve since.

An additional 2 inches is forecast atop Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Advisory conditions will also make travel to the summits very difficult, reducing visibility to nothing at times.

Results of the survey will support an economic impact study Hawaiʻi County Department of Research and Development is conducting on short-term rentals as required by Hawaiʻi County Council Resolution 556, which was adopted last year.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry donated $10,000 to Hawaiʻi Community College’s Culinary Arts Program, funding 20 student scholarships through its annual “A Taste of Hilo” event.

State Department of Transportation personnel at Hilo International Airport have worked with Transportation Security Administration staff in anticipation of the increased number of travelers heading to the Big Island for the 62nd annual Merrie Monarch Festival.

The case is an adult member of the household of the child on Oʻahu who was previously confirmed to be infected April 7 after both recently returned to the state from traveling internationally. The adult is no longer contagious and the child has since fully recovered. No new suspected measles cases have been reported as of April 17.

On Thursday, Coast Guard officials said they would pick the search back up if there was new information, such as a sighting, that would lead to Hind’s location.

Starting May 1, the oceanfront roadway, from Kailua Pier to Hualālai Road, will be open for southbound traffic only to create about 50 parking spaces on the northbound side.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports Episode 18 of ongoing summit eruption of the Big Island volcano began at 10:01 p.m. April 16 and was feeding a lava flow that extended down the vent’s spillway and a short distance onto the crater floor.

Hilo will be the epicenter of all things hula and Hawaiian as the annual Merrie Monarch Festival — the weeklong celebration of island culture — returns for its 62nd year.

Environmental Court’s sufficient finding of final environmental assessment for incompatible insect technique project to control mosquito-born disease that has decimated Hawaiian honeycreeper populations in East Maui, like that started in February on Kauaʻi, affirmed by Intermediate Court of Appeals.

Bipartisan TAME Extreme Weather and Wildfires Act introduced in U.S. Senate by Hawai’i Democrat Schatz and Montana Republican Sheehy would use artificial intelligence to better protect communities from increasing toll of extreme weather and wildfires.

Hawai‘i Fire Department’s two helicopters circled the entire island, spending four days in the air, covering 1,724 nautical miles in 19 hours.

State and county crews have treated 128 palm crowns on the grounds of Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport and another 12 have been treated by injection at ground level. They also have protected 58 palms in the nearby Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai‘i area, with another 14 treated by injection.

U.S. senate, a Hawai‘i Democrat, will give updates about his work in Washington. He will also take questions from constituents throughout the state about their concerns.

U.S. Coast Guard and partner agency crews had searched 200,048 square nautical miles for more than 242 combined hours by the time the agency suspended its search efforts for for missing 42-year-old Kona fisherman Earl “Oa” Hind at 3:30 p.m. the afternoon of April 15. Family and friends, however, are not giving up hope.

Andrew Amon of Ocean View and Kaleo Mello of Nā‘ālehu were both located and taken into custody in separate Ka‘ū locations earlier this week by Big Island police.