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The Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce is asking the community for donations to its scholarship fund at the Pauahi Foundation.

On Thursday morning, one day after Kīlauea began erupting at 4:44 a.m. on Wednesday, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has lowered  alert levels because the initial high effusion rates of lava and gas have declined, and no infrastructure is threatened. 

The occasion was made possible through a collaboration with the non-profit organization Friends of First Responders.

Hawaiʻi County said future enforcement efforts are planned to address issues at parks around the island as part of an ongoing initiative to ensure the safety, cleanliness and functionality of public spaces.

As part of the annual statewide Wildfire & Drought Lookout! campaign, forecasters warned that the Hawaiian Islands will begin experiencing drought conditions late this summer, which could extend through next winter.

For the past two and half weeks, scientists have been monitoring earthquakes that were rumbling beneath the crater and along the southwest rift zone, which is located within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, and along the Nāmakaniopaio fault line, also within the park between Mauna Loa and Kīlauea.

Based on the Disney channel original movies of the same name, the musical is a fun take on classic Disney characters you know and love – or love to hate.

With Halemaʻumaʻu crater quickly filling with lava Wednesday morning, an official at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park said there is no bad place to watch Kīlauea’s latest eruption.

Police investigators recently received surveillance footage of the theft and are hoping that members of the public recognize the suspect.

The Puʻueo Street Bridge between Wailuku and Ohai streets in Hilo will now be closed overnight Wednesday through Thursday morning due to a large tree falling across the road.

For operating an illegal large capacity cesspool, the owners of Extra Space Storage Facility in Kailua-Kona agreed to pay a $130,000 penalty in a settlement announced Wednesday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the summit of Kilauea volcano is erupting, producing a burst of volcanic emissions starting at 4:44 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The $70 million Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs, or RISE, is modeled after the Lassonde Studios, a University of Utah student innovation and housing facility.

A Big Island resident died during an incident over the weekend in which five people apparently suffered from fentanyl poisoning at a hotel in Waikīkī.

There was uneasiness among at least a dozen houseless adults who were camped in front of Hawaiʻi County’s Kona Aquatics Center on Tuesday as they awaited their inevitable so-called eviction the next day.

Hawai’i County, in a letter to ACLU of Hawai’i, defended its May 24 “large-scale enforcement operation” to remove homeless people from a county park in Kona.

The endangered Hawaiian monk seal Malama, who was treated for malnutrition at Ke Kai Ola’s Marine Mammal Center on the Big Island and found dead on March 12 on O’ahu, was killed by blunt force trauma — and it was believed to be an intentional killing, according to NOAA Fisheries.

Hawai‘i police officers stopped 42-year-old Daniel Lemaire when they observed he was not wearing a seatbelt.

The bills cover a myriad of issues, including raising salaries and pay for benefits of Hawaiʻi’s public employees.

At the U.S. Army Garrison Pōhakuloa Training Area on the Big island, scientists recently conducted two diverse projects: one about the Hawaiian bud moth and one about the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption.