Whatʻs happening on April 12 at the Merrie Monarch Festival? Check out our official and unofficial list of events.

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation alerts travelers of busy times at airports as thousands will go to the Big Island for the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, April 12-15.

MIssing 16-year-old from Hilo was located in good health.

“The budget reflects our administration’s commitment to maintaining crucial services while making significant investments in long-overdue infrastructure maintenance projects essential to preserving Hawai’i Island’s natural and cultural resources,” Hawai’i County Mayor Mitch Roth said about his proposed $794.3 million operating budget.

The public can nominate a nonprofit to receive a LED lighting makeover from now until April 28.

The Second Annual Hawai’i Mushroom Festival is just around the corner, offering a weekend full of agricultural education and community-building activities.

Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund and Hawaiian Electric also partnered on two stewardship activities led by employee Alex Kelepolo, recipient of the 2022 Kokua Community Champion Service Award.

Plans to renovate the Keawe Health Center in downtwon Hilo were ended when anomalies in the exterior concrete walls were discovered, leading to demolition of the building instead.

Eric Kinman Doherty, 52 of Kurtistown, has been charged with harassment following an incident at the Hilo Driver Licensing Station in Hilo in which he reportedly gestured he had a gun.

The Department of Health has been able to identify those with known exposure to the case.

A 61-year-old security guard is in critical condition after being struck by a truck on April 4 at Pohoiki Beach Park in Pāhoa on the Big Island.

Pacific 19 Kona, a newly renovated boutique hotel, is offering a special discount package to celebrate its grand opening.

Hawaiian Electric employees and retirees, with the support of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1260, raised more than $63,400 for Hawai‘i Island United Way during the company’s workplace campaign in 2022.

Using ipu grown at his farm, Kalim Smith builds ipu heke, a double-gourd drum, and ipu heke ‘ole, a single gourd drum, which are used in ancient hula.

Queen’s North Hawai’i Community Hospital has launched a summer volunteer program targeted at high school and college students seeking a worthwhile way to spend their summer break.

Proposals for the Food Hub Pilot Program now are being accepted for grants between $50,000 and $250,000.

The Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park has announced its flight operations for April 2023, which will include several low-level helicopter flights.

Hawaiʻi Gas is seeking proposals from local and national suppliers who can provide up to 65,000 therms of renewable natural gas or up to 2,300 kg per day of renewable hydrogen.

National Pet Day was founded in 2006 in the United States by Colleen Paige, an animal welfare advocate, and now the day has spread to 10 countries.

Emergency medical services was called just before 7 a.m. and treated a man bit by an 8-foot tiger shark in Kewalo Basin in Honolulu on Easter Sunday.