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By March 13, the airline’s Japan capacity will be 59% above summer 2023 levels. Hawaiian currently offers daily service between Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport and Tokyo’s Haneda and Osaka’s Kansai airports; six-times-weekly service between Honolulu and Tokyo Narita airport; and thrice-weekly service between Honolulu and Fukuoka airport.

Seven of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision. Three of the drivers arrested were under the age of 21.

Hawai‘i Island police have initiated first-degree terroristic threatening investigation, which is being handled by the Area I Juvenile Aid Section.

The Maui Humane Society was granted restricted access on Aug. 26, 18 days after the destructive wildfire swept through Lahaina. Maui Humane Society CEO, Lisa Labrecque, DVM, shared the challenges, obstacles, and ongoing efforts to provide help in the wake of Maui’s wildfire disaster. Her open letter to the Maui community is posted here.

Hawai‘i Fire Department responded to the four-unit apartment-style building at 8:14 p.m. on Kekumu Place.

The new 1.5T MRI has a smaller footprint, a larger opening making it more comfortable for patients, updated software, and a detachable table for easier patient transfers.

Whether it’s celebrating Queen Lili’uokalani’s birthday with a festival in the Hilo park that shares her name; getting an autograph from 2023 Hilo High grad Devin Saltiban, who was picked by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2023 Major League Baseball draft; watching pickleball matches to support Maui wildfire relief efforts; or supporting your favorite contestant in the next round of Hilo Idol, once again, there is plenty to do on the Big Island during the next week.

13-year-old Jason Abiley, reported missing since Sept. 6, was found Wednesday in Hilo in good health.

The volcano has shown signs of elevated unrest with steady rates of earthquakes since Aug. 22.

The man was last seen in the Pāhoa area at the beginning of August.

The fisherman was shoreline fishing when he jumped in the water to check his line after it got stuck on something.

A Hilo District Court judge maintained bail on a man reportedly found with 19 grams of methamphetamine in a stolen truck. Duke Kaleolani Malakaua, 50, of Hilo, was arrested on Sept. 2 after a Hawai‘i Island police officer saw him exit a Chevrolet pickup truck — reported stolen from a business in Kona sometime between […]

A draft ordinance from the Environmental Management Commission aims to start diverting recyclable materials out of Hawai’i County’s only landfill.

Kahalewai was last seen on Sept. 1 at approximately 10 a.m., when he left the facility for a scheduled furlough. He failed to return to the facility at 2 p.m., as so ordered.

When Hilo patrol officers responded to a single-vehicle traffic collision on Kilauea Avenue at 12:36 a.m. on Saturday, they determined that a 1990 Yamaha motorcycle operated by Wilson was traveling southbound on Kilauea Avenue just before the Puainako intersection, when it crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a utility pole.

Hawaiian Airlines and Arizona State University have awarded the first of eight $10,000 grants under the New Horizons Scholarship Fund to two Native Hawaiian undergraduates enrolled in the W. P. Carey School of Business’s Information Systems program.

Colleen and Tara may be in the company of Tara’s six-year-old daughter, Solenne Grimes. Tara Lasham is wanted on an arrest warrant and for questioning in the same custodial interference investigation. Since last October, police have issued several requests to the public to be on the lookout for the Tara and her daughter.

Levels of activity are expected to rise and fall during this period of unrest. No unusual activity has been noted along the volcano’s East Rift Zone or Southwest Rift Zone.

United is working with customers impacted by the grounded flights.

Hawai‘i Island police officers have been going to Maui since a fire destroyed Lāhainā and killed at least 115 people.