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The Puainako Street and Kanoelehua Avenue intersection in Hilo is now open.

Hawai‘i Island police report that 15-year-old Zoelynn Puaoi-Pinheiro, who was previously reported as a runaway, was located in Hilo in good health on Monday, March 28.

The annual Point In Time Count data released on April 7 show downward trends in some categories, although neighbor islands as a whole saw a slight increase of roughly 1% in homeless population numbers.

Gov. David Ige released $4,500,000 in capital improvement project funds to finance the construction costs for west ramp demolition and lease lots at Hilo International Airport on the island of Hawaiʻ

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands held a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, April 8 for the first phase of its Honomū Subsistence Agriculture Homestead Community in South Hilo.

In a decision-making meeting today, the Senate Committee on Ways and Means voted to pass a measure that would establish the Mauna a Wākea stewardship authority as the sole authority for management of state-managed lands on Mauna a Wākea.

HPD released its weekly outstanding warrants list.

A Puna man was sentenced to consecutive prison terms in Hilo Circuit Court for property crimes and a resisting an order to stop case.

I think the Island of Hawaiʻi is one of the most magical places on Earth. You can literally see land in the making when one of the volcanoes is erupting. But the familiar sight of red-glowing lava flows makes it hard to imagine a time when eruptions were different, and to think that such a time may come again someday.

A number of tour guides and boating professionals are questioning the company’s practice of having its crew enter the water from the stern of the boat where the vessel’s engines were in wake of a fatal accident earlier this week in waters outside of Honokohau Marina.

Big Island police are asking for the public’s help with finding a missing teen.

The new owners of a commercial kitchen space in Keaukaha are taking an innovative approach to addressing food security and agribusiness development.

The state is warning residents about an increase in fraudulent schemes targeting those filing for unemployment benefits.

The University of Hawaiʻi is now part of a team of hydrologic researchers throughout the United States and Canada, whose mission is to help the nation get water and weather ready.

A Hilo man faces several charges, including for felony abuse, in connection with incidents that happened earlier this month.

Several Big Island businesses and organizations are getting a financial boost to help fund pilot ideas or scale up concepts.

A Kona man is facing a myriad of theft offenses following an incident at Kekaha Kai State Park where a vehicle was broken into and several unauthorized credit card transactions were made at Queenʻs Marketplace.

The U.S. Senate made history when they confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court by a vote of 53-47.

Authorities are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating a Mountain View man.

Public high school graduation ceremonies have been scheduled for the Class of 2022.