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Kunia Hassard, 37, was charged Monday afternoon with multiple counts of assault and a single count of theft.

Victor Kandle is the new mass transit agency administrator for Hawai’i County.

The charges stem from an incident that occurred on June 22 at 7:10 p.m. in the drive-thru of a Kea‘au business, in which an off-duty police officer observed a pickup truck strike a pole in the drive-thru.

Guy Lawrence Harper is scheduled to make his initial appearance in Hilo District Court on Monday afternoon. He remains in custody in lieu of $85,000 bail.

Both lanes of Keawe Street will remain open to traffic and parking during nighttime hours, weekends, and holidays.

7-Eleven Hawaiʻi and OmniFoods have collaborated to introduce a new plant-based katsu musubi, featuring the award-winning Omni Luncheon plant-based meats.

This summer, a portion of all sales at Ohana Fuels locations on Hawai’i Island will be donated to Hawai’i Island United Way.

Hawaiʻi County is holding its third town hall in the series, “Sustainable Horizons: Mayor Roth’s Community Impact Check-in,” at the Waikōloa Elementary School cafeteria.

Update: The National Weather Service has canceled a high surf advisory for Hawaiʻi Island.

The ‘Āina Informatics Network was established by ʻIolani School in 2017 to develop place-based curricula for genome science centered on local biodiversity and global issues in bioethics.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has entered into an agreement with Hawaiʻi Community Lending to expand access to homes in rural Hawaʻi for low and very-low income residents.

Outrigger Resorts & Hotels announced Thursday it plans to acquire Kaua‘i Beach Resort & Spa in Līhu‘e, which would give the company a property on all four major Hawaiian islands.

Part of developing a new management plan for Maunakea on the Big Island will be including voices that might not have been heard in the past and will include public input.

Have you seen her? Harley Hendricks was reported as a runaway. She was last seen the morning of June 24 in Fern Acres in Puna.

Hawai‘i bucks the trend of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in several states throughout the nation, but that doesn’t mean members of the community here on the Big Island don’t still face challenges.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu says winds have diminished below advisory levels.

Rep. Trish La Chica has been chosen as a delegate for the Filipino Young Leaders Program, a collaborative initiative between the Philippine Embassy, Consulates General in the U.S., and the Ayala Foundation, Inc.

At the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, 127 student-athletes have been recognized on the Pacific West Conference 2022-23 Academic All-PacWest Team.

The Zonta Club of Hilo is providing an opportunity for women entrepreneurs on Big Island to receive financial support through its Pay It Forward microgrant program.

The new Maunakea Stewardship and Oversite Authority is tasked with creating a new management plan to balance the use of land considered sacred by Native Hawaiians and revered as one of the best places in the world for astronomy.