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The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health has canceled a brown water advisory for Waialea Bay to Kapaʻa Beach on the Big Island.

So far this year, there have been 194 DUI arrests compared with 209 during the same period last year, a decrease of 7 percent.

The report cited a slew of high-profile criminal acts by government workers and officials, including a Big Island case involving $2 million in bribes and kickbacks to a county housing office employee.

Hawaiian Telcom crews closed an approximately 25-mile fiber gap between Volcano and Pahala, completing another ring in the company’s network.

Police are seeking the public’s help finding Hazelyn Gonzales, 13, who was last seen on Tradewind Drive in Pāhoa.

Missing Justine Kawaa, 12, was found in good health in Hilo.

The National Weather Service’s high wind advisory for all districts of Hawaiʻi Island remains in effect through Thursday. Sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph with localized gusts over 50 mph are forecast.

“Do me a favor” scammers also have tried to get people to buy or invest in crypto currency or foreign exchange in an effort to steal money.

The Hawai‘i County Council met Tuesday for several committee meetings. Agenda topics ranged from floriculture and agricultural properties used as a primary residence to affordable housing, homelessness and preservation of a property in Hilo.

This would be the first allocation from a five-year program the Council approved last year and that took affect on July 1, 2022 to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis on the Big Island.

The forecast is for dangerously large breaking waves of 10 to 15 feet in Kona and Kohala.

The attempted murder suspect is 5 feet 7 inches and 215 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He has a distinctive tattoo on his right cheek near his eye that reads “greed”. 

The Hawai’i State Division of Forestry and Wildlife asks that people stay off the 2022 Mauna Loa lava flow to protect themselves from hazardous conditions.

Hawaiʻi Island police officers executed a vehicle narcotics search warrant and recovered approximately 12 ounces of methamphetamine and two P80 framed, unserialized, and unregistered handguns from the vehicle of Daniel Keith Kia‘i Tavares.

“Safe, stable, affordable housing is a cornerstone of good health, economic prosperity and educational attainment,” said Will White, director of the Hawaiʻi Budget & Policy Center.

The forecast is for southwest winds of 55 to 65 mph at the Big Island summits with higher gusts today, increasing to 70 to 90 mph with higher gusts tonight.

Representing the Big Island in the top 15 outstanding Hawaiʻi Department of Education principals for 2023: Sharon Beck, Kaʻu High School and Pahala Elementary School; Kori Takaki, Kahakai Elementary School; and Lisa Souza, Waiākea Intermediate School.

The plight of the Nākoa, a 94-foot luxury yacht that spent nearly two weeks grounded in Honolua Bay on Maui only to be freed from the rocky shoreline and then sink in about 800 feet of water, is not the only yacht plot to unfold in Hawai‘i waters during the past decade.

The public is advised to stay out of flood waters and storm water runoff in Hilo Bay due to possible overflowing cesspools, sewers, manholes, pesticides, animal fecal matter, dead animals, pathogens, chemicals and associated flood debris.

Four men were arrested for firearms offenses on March 4 while at a cockfight in Kealakekua, where drugs and illegal firearms were recovered, along with U.S. currency and two vehicles for forfeiture, according to Hawaiʻi Island police.