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At Ashley Kierkiewiczʻ town hall, updates will be provided about District 4 legislative priorities, recovery efforts from the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, parks and recreation initiatives, mass transit issues and other revitalization initiatives.

For Big Island Now’s weekly poll, we ask one simple questions about tourism: Is the number of visitors not enough, just right or too many?

The man attacked by a shark at Anaeho’omalu Bay on the Big Island made it to a moored catamaran, whose crew helped him onboard and controlled bleeding to his upper and lower extremities.

The Kamuela Philharmonic Orchestra will feature the highly celebrated violinist Sirena Huang for her first performance in Hawai‘i, playing Dvorák’s Violin Concerto.

Kahuaola is a resource center that aims to build a foundation to support the basic needs of the students at Hawaiʻi Community College.

The Hilo Education Arts Repertory Theatre is presenting “The Prom,” the outrageous and heart-warming musical comedy that was the recipient of seven Tony Award nominations.

A Hilo woman is facing several class A felony drug charges after she was reportedly found with methamphetamine, oxycodone and heroin earlier this month.

The half-mile white coral sand Hāpuna Beach, the largest white sand beach on the Big Island features crystal-clear water and also offers bodysurfing and sunbathing opportunities along other beach-related activities such as picnicking.

Customers impacted include those along Pu‘u Manu Place on Māmalahoa Highway, between White Road and Hohola Drive.

Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice.

Nearly 30 foreign military attachés and their spouses visited U.S. Army Garrison Pōhakuloa Training Area and Kawaihae Harbor as part of a Headquarters Department of the Army sponsored tour of O‘ahu and the island of Hawai‘i.

Anja Marie Henriques, Mikaella Casino and Lynelle Yadao-Ellazar designed a lunar habitat chair for the NASA HUNCH engineering program.

Goats are taken to two Hawai’i County-owned preservation properties — culturally sensitive La’aloa and Puapuaʻa Point in downtown Kailua-Kona — to provide land management.

Hawaiʻi police have charged a 23-year-old Kailua-Kona man in connection to a series of break-ins that occurred in the Kailua-Kona area during the early morning hours of Tuesday.

The GeoScientists Promoting Accessible Collaborative Experiences (GeoSPACE) field course takes place simultaneously in the San Francisco Volcanic Field of northern Arizona and online every summer.

A Hawaiʻi Fire Department crew arrived around 7: 18 p.m. on Thursday to find a small boat with two fishermen aboard drifting about 100 yards offshore of the Four Seasons Hualālai coastline and toward a reef.

Daniel K. Inouye Highway is now open.

During the week of March 6-12, 17 motorists were arrested for DUI. Five were involved in traffic accidents; one of the drivers was younger than 21 years old. So far this year, there have been 211 DUI arrests compared with 231 during the same period last year, a decrease of 8.7%.

To help keep the Big Island safe, the Hawai‘i Police Department is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to spread the message about the dangers of driving under the influence of an intoxicant.

Construction is expected to start this year on a new research campus in Hilo that will not only house the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory but also the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center.