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The National Weather Service has extended a high surf advisory for Big Island’s west-facing shores to 6 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10.

The latest COVID-19 testing updates received for the correctional facilities were released on Friday, Jan. 7.

For the very first time, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before it collapsed into a Type II supernova.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health reported 4,204 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, bringing the statewide total to 138,646. One new fatality was reported.

The County of Hawai‘i released its weekly road closures for the week of Jan. 8-14. Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice. All projects are weather permitting.

The County of Hawai‘i Department of Parks and Recreation cancelled the Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival due to the COVID-19 surge on the Big Island.

Big Island police issued three fireworks-related citations from 6 p.m. New Year’s Eve to 11:59 p.m. Jan. 2.

Experts are on alert, but not overly concerned of the increased COVID cases, they said, as Big Island hospitals have the plans, resources and experience to handle the volume of new cases, even should they rise.

Hawaiʻi Police Department releases its weekly outstanding warrants list.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health reported 3,586 new COVID-19 cases Friday, bringing the statewide total to 134,442. Three new fatalities were reported.

The National Weather Service has extended a high surf advisory for Big Island’s west-facing shores to 6 p.m.

Confusion over property boundaries in Kaloko Mauka pitted a handful of hikers and neighbors against a pair of landowners who wanted to begin building homes on their private parcels.

Hawai‘i police have initiated terroristic threatening cases in connection to threats received by personnel at Waiākea High School two days in a row.

One lane on Daniel K. Inouye Highway between Hilo and Mauna Kea Road junction is closed due to a truck fire.

A Hilo man indicted on sexual assault charges last month pleaded not guilty in 3rd Circuit Court on Tuesday, Jan. 4.

Seven Big Island groups were recently awarded funding in support of programs and projects they are working on to preserve the island’s natural resources.

About 100 Soldiers from two units of the Hawai‘i Army National Guard have been notified by the Department of Defense about an upcoming deployment to the Middle East, state officials announced Thursday afternoon.

Known to many as “Pele’s Grandson,” Alexander (“Alex” or “Alec”) Lancaster guided both tourists and scientists to Hawai‘i’s volcanoes for over forty years, from 1885 to 1928.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Maui County Fire Department on Thursday rescued two mariners aboard a disabled watercraft off Pe‘ahi, on the north shore of Maui.

A Paʻauilo man is scheduled to appear in Hilo District today on charges of attempted possession and distribution of more than five pounds of methamphetamine and damaging a police vehicle following his arrest on Jan. 3 Paʻauilo.