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The 30-day comment period on the project’s environmental assessment started Monday; plan aims to improve the reliability and resilience of the park’s electricaly system in the event of extreme weather.

Wendy Hensel will take questions from the public during a campus forum from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the UH-Hilo Performing Arts Center. Community members can attend in person or via Zoom. Finalist Julian Vasquez Heilig will do the same next Tuesday.

Hawai‘i will eliminate the “net income limit” for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps, which could extend benefits to 13,000 to 14,000 more households throughout the state by next year.

Occupancy for Hawai‘i Island hotels was down at 66.8%, 2.1 percentage points lower than August 2023 and 14.1 percentage points behind 2019.

It is uncertain whether the Hāwī transfer station will reopen after Wednesday. Further updates will be provided as more information becomes available.

60-year-old Olaf Seyler’s initial court appearance was Monday afternoon in South Hilo District Court, where his bail was maintained and a preliminary hearing was set for 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Kamalu Freitas was last seen at about 9 a.m. Sept. 23 on Aupuni Street in Hilo. Have you seen him?

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports “all observable and instrumental signs of potential for renewed eruptive activity have declined”; only a couple of intermittent small spots of residual glow could be detected on the flow field Sunday night and weak degassing continues.

16-year-old Taimane Muasau Wong was found Sept. 19 in Captain Cook.

Hawai‘i Diaper Bank, the first nonprofit in the islands to provide free diapers, baby wipes and other children’s essentials to low-income families with young keiki, will donate its millionth diaper to Going Home Hawai‘i today.

State personnel and partners will get to work building a $384,400 coral nursery on the Garden Isle this January.

Volunteers worked at Camp Kilohana and Kealakehe Elementary.

This is the first detection of CRB on the island since October 2023 when a Waikoloa resident reported finding a total of six grubs (larvae) in a decaying palm tree stump.

The burglary reportedly occurred on Thursday, Sept. 19, between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., at a business located on the 100 block of Kaumana Drive in Hilo.

An increase in shower activity is not likely; however, showers that do develop could be locally heavy.

The project was previously estimated to be substantially completed by the end of this month. The state needs to re-evaluate the final configuration of the roadway to ensure the pedstrian path along the mauka side of the street meets safety standards.

The Hawai’i Fire Department made the difficult decision Sept. 13 to relocate Waiākea personnel to Station No. 3 on Haihai Street, nearly 5 miles away, after receiving a report of a dangerous mold condition inside the Keaukaha firehouse located at 95 Kea’a St.

The Thursday night debate that aired on KHON2 capped off the three-day 2024 Native Hawaiian Convention at the Hilton Waikōloa Resort put on by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.

The prosecution presented evidence that Dominic Alexander Roberts engaged in dissemination of child sexual abuse material across multiple social media platforms and used cyberbullying and extortion to solicit child sexual abuse materials and other harmful content from minors.

The assault happened earlier this month outside a bar in downtown Hilo; the robbery and employee assaults took place at the end of August at a business in Prince Kūhiō Plaza on Pūʻainakō Street in Hilo.