News

February is Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiian Language Month.

The 30th anniversary Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival put a spotlight on not just the cherry blossoms in Church Row Park but also Japanese tradition and heritage.

Nationally, in 2019, 49% of drivers who were killed in crashes and were tested for drugs, tested positive.

A third victim was transported to a hospital, where he is currently in stable condition.

Recruits undertake six months of academy training and four months of field training, once they’re hired.

To improve system reliability, Hawaiian Electric will conduct quarterly aerial inspections of its major overhead transmission lines from Feb. 7-10.

In the 1980s, Akeakamai was the best-known of the “language” dolphins in Louis Herman’s animal language studies at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu.

Outplanting sites include two owned by Kamehameha Schools, and a third home to a tree found nowhere else in the world.

The mysterious blue swirl and green laser light show captured by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera at the Subaru Telescope atop Maunakea on the Big Island inspired a lot of different ideas as to what they could be, but the explanations aren’t as out of this world as some might think.

Police say 52-year-old Roger Tolar of Hilo was located in Kona.

While tako is a common name for the octopus in the Aloha State, it is of Japanese origin. The Hawaiian word for octopus is he’e.

Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice.

Hawaiʻi Community Lending projects this funding will support 200 low-income families in their pursuit of housing in Hawaiʻi, with the potential to help more than 900 families over the next three years.

On Jan. 6, Kanaloa Octopus Farm was sent the letter, which said the state’s Division of Aquatic Resources learned the facility “is propagating Octopus cyanea and attempting to rear juvenile individuals.” Without a permit, even the temporary possession of Octopus cyanea specimens less than one pound in weight (including newly hatched larvae) is unlawful.

Hawai’i Island Police said upon examination of the weapon Aina Cachero possessed when he was shot by an officer, it was “found to not be a functioning firearm.”

San Diego tourist Khiara Lavina Henry went missing four years ago on Maui – but a tipster may have seen her on the Big Island last month.

Hawai’i Energy can award a total of $592,000 in rebates for eligible installation projects of electric vehicle charging stations completed between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

The 2022-2023 magnetotelluric project will cover almost the entire surface of Kīlauea volcano and allow researchers to see more detail about the subsurface plumbing of the Southwest Rift Zone and the lower East Rift Zone that fed the 2018 Puna eruption on the Big Island.

With thousands of people expected to attend Saturday’s Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival in Waimea on the Big Island, today’s “Hawaiian Word of the Day” is ho‘olaule‘a.

The gallery in Hōlualoa is free and open to the public starting Feb. 4. Attendees may bid online beginning later in the month.