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A bill that would create a new cabinet-level Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity and Resilience and a new chapter in Hawaiʻi County code to govern it is moving forward.

Highway 11 is currently closed in both directions by mile marker 40 as first responders work to clear debris.

The students were among 60 recipients, one from each qualifying public and independent school in the state, who received scholarships based on academic achievement, community service and financial need.

The club awarded Mina Taniyama, Ryli Sasaki, Civic Gomes and Torrance Satta-Ellis with a $1,000 scholarship each, and Anuhea Spinola with a $500 scholarship towards a two-year degree or certificate.

The event is sponsored by the Galleri Early Cancer Screening Test.

The strong winds will persist through at least Thursday night and possibly through Friday.

Ka‘ahumanu Place will be closed on Saturday for the annual Kamehameha Day canoe regatta craft fair with exciting vendors, a food booth and more.

Hawaiian Electric is seeking regulatory approval of its Integrated Grid Plan.

Okinaka previously served as human resources director at Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home.

Emma Magana is Hispanic, 2 feet in height with a thin build, approximately 30 pounds with chin-length brown hair and brown eyes.

Work to prevent rockfalls along Waipiʻo Valley Road on Hawaiʻi Island will begin on May 22 with the road to be closed to all traffic when construction is underway.

The State of Hawaiʻi Sheriff Division was named the winner of the 2023 best-dressed public safety award for “Police & Sheriff – Sheriff” by the Network Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors.

Capt. T. N. Simeona, the pound master for the Kohala area on the Big Island near the end of the 19th century, was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 30, 1890. His story was told and his name added to the police memorial wall at the Hilo Police Station on Monday during the Hawai‘i Police Department’s National Police Week ceremony.

Families celebrated the sobriety of six graduates, and the 21st anniversary of the Big Island Drug Cthat has helped more than 350 people get their lives back on track in Hawaiʻi County.

Over the past year, detectives have interviewed multiple witnesses and had forensic testing of evidence completed.

Alec Lyle Timpson, 30, turned himself in to Hawai‘i police Sunday at 11:25 a.m., at the Kealakehe Police Station after police issued a media release describing the vehicle involved in the collision.

Hawai‘i Island police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Jaysea Smith, who was last seen in Hilo on April 20.

An anonymous tipster provided the Hawai’i State Department of Land and Natural Resources with photographs taken last week that show a couple posing and their dog too close to a Hawaiian monk seal on a beach within the Ka‘ena Point State Park in Honolulu County. 

A Mountain View man was driving north on Highway 11 in a 2003 Toyota Tacoma on Sunday night when he struck what he thought was a pig in front of Glenwood Park in Volcano, but after returning to the scene discovered it was a pedestrian.

The agencies encourage anyone with an interest in or concern about air tours over Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park to review and comment on the draft Air Tour Management Plan and environmental assessment.