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The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for the Big Island that is in effect until 6 p.m. Monday.

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation announced weekly lane closures for Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.

The events offer residents the opportunity to conveniently dispose of acceptable household hazardous waste in a manner that protects public health and the environment.

A Laysan Albatross was rescued at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kaua’i in what experts believe was due to a pig destroying her egg and causing yoke to get on her feathers.

Native Hawaiian practitioners have been conducting cultural protocols as heavy equipment is attempting to move the 56-foot, 60-ton carcass onto the beach.

The officer was recognized during an awards ceremony put on by the Kona Crime Prevention Committee at Huggo’s on the Rocks in Kona, on Jan. 4.

The request for a federal disaster declaration comes on the heels of one-day, onsite inspection Jan. 5 by an 11-person team of state and federal emergency management officials of damages and impacts caused by the eruption of Mauna Loa.

Hawai‘i police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance with locating Tara Lasham, who is wanted on an outstanding warrant and for questioning relative to a custodial interference investigation.

Cheryl Ho called Hilo police and told them her 21-year-old schizophrenic son Joshua was having an episode and yielding a knife, but by the time Hawai’i Island police arrived it was too late.

The first in-person sale since before the COVID-19 pandemic will feature succulents, perennial edibles, natives, seed starts from the University of Hawai‘i, ornamentals, pollinator plants, seeds and more.

The stolen mahiole was created by renowned local artist Rick San Nicolas, who sold it to the hotel several years ago.

The volunteer effort follows the unit’s annual exercise, Operation PIKO, at Pōhakuloa Training Area.

All three people are known to frequent the South Kona and Ocean View areas.

To find out if magma is accumulating in the magma reservoir of the Big Island volcano Kīlauea, scientists use microgravity surveys.

New DNA evidence in the case excluded Albert “Ian” Schweitzer, whose conviction was overturned Tuesday. DNA found on key evidence belongs to another unknown individual.

“We know we need housing for all, but to do this here, where we know so many people are struggling, is magical,” Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green said during the blessing of a tiny home village for the homeless in North Kona.

Highway 11 now is open between Konawaena School Road and Haleki’i Street. It had been closed due to a car crash.

Samuel Imaizumi, 47, was charged with felony assault of the two police officers and resisting arrest.

Large capacity cesspools, which service 20 or more people per day, have been banned in the United States since 2005.

Prior to its discovery in 10 whale and dolphin host species across the Pacific, the virus was found in only a single marine mammal worldwide, a Longman’s beaked whale stranded on Maui in 2010.