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A service animal is described as any dog specifically trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual or other disability.

For the past several years, with NASA support, astronomers at the UH Institute for Astronomy and industry partners have been maturing the new tech that will be used for a mission to identify and classify about 25 Earth-like exoplanets.

American Savings Bank is the only bank in Hawaiʻi to be recognized on Forbes’ America’s Best-In-State Banks 2023 list.

The occupancy for Big Island vacation rentals in May was 43.5%, which is down 14.2% from a year ago and 27.8% lower than May 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has committed nearly $16 million as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to prevent the imminent extinction of Hawaiian Forest Birds.

The 2023 Transpac competition from California to Oʻahu begins on Tuesday with the first wave of 16 sailboats crossing the starting line in the vicinity of Point Fermin in San Pedro.

The 2023 Big Island Chocolate Festival awarded $8,000 in proceeds to three educational organizations.

In 40 years, with a lot of hard work, dedication and passion, Ka‘ena Point has been restored to one of the last wild places on an otherwise mostly urbanized O‘ahu.

After being scammed on an engine and years of meticulous preparation, Kona nurse Jenny Decker will set sail on Wednesday to circumnavigate the globe with her 6-pound Maltese Yorkie named Romeo — and while battling a rare neurological disease that ultimately will put her into a wheelchair.

Kunia Hassard, 37, was charged Monday afternoon with multiple counts of assault and a single count of theft.

Victor Kandle is the new mass transit agency administrator for Hawai’i County.

The charges stem from an incident that occurred on June 22 at 7:10 p.m. in the drive-thru of a Kea‘au business, in which an off-duty police officer observed a pickup truck strike a pole in the drive-thru.

Guy Lawrence Harper is scheduled to make his initial appearance in Hilo District Court on Monday afternoon. He remains in custody in lieu of $85,000 bail.

Both lanes of Keawe Street will remain open to traffic and parking during nighttime hours, weekends, and holidays.

7-Eleven Hawaiʻi and OmniFoods have collaborated to introduce a new plant-based katsu musubi, featuring the award-winning Omni Luncheon plant-based meats.

This summer, a portion of all sales at Ohana Fuels locations on Hawai’i Island will be donated to Hawai’i Island United Way.

Hawaiʻi County is holding its third town hall in the series, “Sustainable Horizons: Mayor Roth’s Community Impact Check-in,” at the Waikōloa Elementary School cafeteria.

Update: The National Weather Service has canceled a high surf advisory for Hawaiʻi Island.

The ‘Āina Informatics Network was established by ʻIolani School in 2017 to develop place-based curricula for genome science centered on local biodiversity and global issues in bioethics.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has entered into an agreement with Hawaiʻi Community Lending to expand access to homes in rural Hawaʻi for low and very-low income residents.