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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.

At the Magical Creatures Sanctuary on the Big island, animal advocates celebrated National Animal Rights Day.

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 14-year-old Elise Medeiros, who was last seen in Waimea.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i issued a letter on June 2 to the County of Hawai’i demanding that it stop planned sweeps of houseless people and their possessions until there is a place for them to go.

Three boys from the Big island — who were tracking a pig on Saturday afternoon and got lost — spent the night hunkered down in the dense forest of Mountain View before being rescued on Sunday morning.

Waikōloa Beach Resort Golf is offering discounted rate for junior golfers to play nine holes after 3 p.m.

The 2023 theme for World Ocean Day is “Planet Ocean: Tides Are Changing.”

World Ocean Day is June 8. In Big Island Now Poll #14 we ask: What is your favorite creature that lives in the ocean around Hawaiʻi?

Senior Medicare Patrol Hawaiʻi is organizing Medicare Fraud Prevention Week from June 5 to 11.

Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i has chosen David Kauila Kopper as its new executive director, starting June 13.

Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announced its flight operations for June 2023, which includes the volcano observatory retrieving temporary seismic instruments.

Two 12-year-old boys and one 15-year-old boy were last seen at noon on June 3 walking on Ihope Road in Mountain View on the Big Island for a hunting trip.

Twelve people completed Basic Corrections Recruit Class 23-01 training and will begin their careers as correctional officers in facilities across Oʻahu and on the Big Island.

On May 23, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held its first Waikōloa Maneuver Area’s Restoration Advisory Board meeting of the year and had good news that no munitions were found in the Puʻukapu development project area.

Hawai‘i Island police still need the public’s assistance in locating 34-year-old Kelly Gravitt of Pāhoa, who was reported missing and last seen on May 19.

With the beginning of hurricane season on June 1 in the Central Pacific, Hawaiian Electric is advising residential and commercial customers to be prepared and have emergency plans in place.

In another gardening column by Master Gardener Tom Timmons, he writes: “Sadly, tomatoes are subject to so many diseases that I think they may have suicidal tendencies. But with a little TLC, they will survive nicely until you rip them from the plant and chop them up for salsa.”

In a tiny Western Kentucky cabin in December of 2020, Madison McCreary Stuart began recording songs for her first album in a loft she and her childhood friends converted into a music studio. It was during the COVID-19 pandemic. In between teaching English online to her 10th grade students at Kealakehe High School — who […]

The speed limit on Hawai‘i Belt Road (Route 19) between Kopilimai Road and Ka‘ie‘ie Homestead Road in Papaʻikou will be reduced from 45 mph to 35 mph as part of the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation safety improvement plan.

After a 30-year-old man ditches a vehicle he was driving recklessly in Kailua-Kona on Tuesday afternoon, police saw him running in the distance in thick brush.