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Participants will get to learn about a variety of ecosystems, natural resource management techniques and cultural practices unique to Hawai‘i.

Puna Patrol Officer Taylor Cruz, who has just over two years of experience, found the culprits late last year.

The Hawai‘i Police Department conducts the survey – which closes Feb. 28 – every two years.

The playground equipment, with a price tag of $104,780, was purchased with money raised from several fundraisers held last year by Waikōloa Village residents committed to seeing the park revitalized.

The National Weather Service says a Kona Low is expected to bring widespread heavy rainfall and possibly some thunderstorms, gusty winds and lightning from Thursday morning through Saturday, starting on the Big Island.

Hawaiian Electric offers tips to help customers prepare for potential extended outages caused by the upcoming Kona low storm on the Big Island.

While police were looking for the suspect, the nearby Waimea Elementary School went into lockdown at 1:51 p.m. on Feb. 15 out of an abundance of caution.

The National Weather Service has cancelled the flood advisory for the South Kohala District. 

Total water bucket drops for the entire incident, which began Feb. 12 with two fires ignited by lightning strikes, are 222 water bucket drops with 200,000 gallons of water.

The Valentine’s Day 2023 Big Island earthquake was one of eight temblors of magnitude 4.8 or higher that occurred around the Pacific from Tuesday night to early Wednesday afternoon.

Actress and romance novelist Faleena Hopkins, who starred in the 2020 drama “Just One More Kiss,” was found safe today after going missing for 17 days after leaving a Wyoming jail.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is searching for a new athletics director to replace retiring David Matlin who has served in the position for eight years.

A GoFundMe medical campaign for Kona resident Dave Yamagata, who has myelodysplastic syndrome — a bone marrow disorder that prevents his body from making red blood cells.

The Cupid Crew is part of Wish of a Lifetime from AARP, a program that combats the negative effects of isolation and strengthens social ties and intergenerational connections of people 65 and older.

The temblor struck at 9:27 p.m. about 7.5 miles southeast of Pāhala off the Ka‘ū Coast at a depth of about 20 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The National Weather Service has upgrade the winter storm watch to a winter storm warning for the summits of Maunakea and Mauna Loa.

The cased stemmed from an October 2021 traffic stop, where police found methamphetamine on Zuffante’s person and in his car.

The threat for heaviest rainfall will begin on the Big Island and then spread to the remaining islands.

“Flight 2, I don’t know if you copied, but Skymaster … just crashed off the north end,” said the air traffic controller at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport on the Big Island.

The donations include $80,000 to support a graduate assistantship and efforts to foster a Native Hawaiian place of learning at the School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology.