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Kailea Kekipi was found in good health in Hilo.

ClimbHI recently launched an initiative to provide on-site educational opportunities to meet the changing workforce development needs of Hawaiʻi schools and businesses.

Hawaiʻi Police Department’s Traffic Services Section shows there have been 147 major traffic crashes so far this year, a 31 percent increase from the same time frame last year.

The two county construction projects include preservation of heiaus with a buffer of native plants while also building an accessibility ramp and new bathrooms at the beach park.

Harris was last seen at about midnight March 3 on 31st Avenue in Hawaiian Paradise Park, wearing a black shirt and blue shorts.

Salvage efforts will resume sometime this weekend as crews attempt to free the grounded yacht Nakoa from the near-shore reef on the edge of Honolua Bay. 

Two men from Maui were sentenced in federal court for their racially motivated attack on a white man who was attempting to move into their neighborhood of Kahakuloa. Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 33, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison; and Levi Aki Jr., 33, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.

The unidentified man observed on video surveillance is described as possibly in his 20s, having a thin build and a fair complexion with dark colored hair. He was last seen wearing a pink hooded jacket.

Cara Miguel,14, was found in good health in Pāhoa.

Hawai‘i Island police are renewing their request for information about the death of 62-year-old Allen Y.L. Kealoha, who was reportedly struck by his own truck while trying to secure cargo.

Each grant recipient can receive up to $20,000 in reimbursements for a cesspool conversion or cost of connecting to a sewage system in the State of Hawaiʻi.

Ralpheal Alfred Kanani Silva has not been seen or heard from by his family and friends since Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, 2018, on Auwae Road in Hilo.  

Persons who know a warrant is out for their arrest are advised to report to the nearest police station to avoid having an officer go to their home or workplace to arrest them.

Heavy mixed precipitation is forecast, including accumulations of snow up to 8 inches and ice accumulations of around two tenths of an inch on the summits of the Big Island.

The inaugural Western Regional Native Hawaiian Convention will be held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino and will feature discussions on cultural perpetuation, housing and tourism.

The lava sample analysis results from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa gave geologists a window into the volcano’s plumbing system for the first time in almost 40 years.  

U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaiʻi led 30 of her colleagues in pushing to prevent local and state law enforcement from using federal assistance to surveil or investigate individuals receiving or providing abortion care. 

Mother Nature has teased many of us with a few breaks, psyching us out with sunny and blue skies, before 10 minutes later turning the faucet back on full blast. It’s been cold and windy. The weather has definitely been more than a bit dismal. That doesn’t mean, however, we have to be.

The Child Labor Prevention Act would increase maximum fines for violations and establish new criminal penalties to deter child labor and hold employers accountable.

Hawaiʻi County firefighters arrived at 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday to find the unoccupied home that was 450 feet down a steep driveway fully involved.