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With ongoing staffing shortages for school bus drivers, the state will partner with counties for the second year in a row to provide transportation for students attending Hawai‘i public schools.

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation worked with Florida officials to clear any misconceptions about Hawai‘i’s limited-purpose driver licenses

Aloha Theater is hosting a two-hour audition workshop on July 29 to help participants prepare for “The Play That Goes Wrong.” Newcomers to acting are encouraged to attend.

This project involves removing, hauling, and disposing of drain rock, silt, debris and more from the existing clogged and overflowing boat wash down area of the trench drain.

In just the first 15 hours, 304 people donated more than $40,000, double the goal of $20,000, to help the family of Yohan Choi, who tragically died on July 24 in a spearfishing accident at only age 17.

Update: Route 190 now is open between the 20 and 21 mile markers (Puʻu Lani Ranch area). It had been closed due to a brush fire on the Big Island.

Atlanta-based fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is holding a webinar for potential franchise operators to learn more on Aug. 2

Mandi Kawaha and Darren Williams just recently wrapped up their Vulcans careers and graduated this past spring.

In these classes students will learn the building blocks of theater and pick up life skills such as public speaking, problem solving and working as part of a team.

Patrons of the Pāhoa Post Office deal with excessive wait times, inaccessible and too-small facilities, and waitlists for postal box availability.

High school bus routes on the Big Island and Maui have been modified due to the bus driver shortages, but school bus service will continue.

So far this year, there have been 548 DUI arrests on Big Island roadways compared with 580 during the same period last year.

Cummings was last seen on the 600 Block of Wainaku Street in Hilo on July 25 at 10:15 a.m. wearing a pink blouse.

Upon arriving at “Loneliness Tree” in Hilo, officers discovered an unconscious 41-year-old man lying in sand next to a fire pit and portable metal grill, with his right arm pinned under a large boulder of the fire-pit.

Four spear fishermen entered the ocean near the public beach access at Hokulia in Kailua-Kona at 1:30 p.m. on July 24, but three hours later when they exited the water one of the fishermen could not be found and was later located unresponsive on the ocean floor.

Landon Fairbanks was last seen on Aug. 3, 2022, at noon, in an area referred to as “Two-Step” beach near Pu‘uhonua O‘Hōnaunau in Hōnaunau.

During a 2022 survey, only 243 wild ‘Aupaka plants were recorded, making it one of the rarest plants found at Pōhakuloa Training Area.

The Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey is the only comprehensive study of its kind in the islands and takes place from July through December 2023.

Good weather brought sunshine, a welcome cloud cover at times and a light breeze that kept everyone cool during Saturday’s festival which started at 10 a.m. and ended at 3 p.m.

The Royal Standard of Queen Lili’uokalani, Hawai‘i’s last reigning monarch, was returned July 24, 2023 to her Washington Place home and placed on public view for the first time in 130 years, since it was illegally seized in 1893.