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Awards keep rolling in for the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo women’s soccer team. The team recently was named a United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award winner. The award recognized exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2021-22 academic year. The Vulcan women’s soccer team posted a team grade-point average of 3.40 to rank […]

Make-A-Wish Hawai‘i is marking 40 years of granting life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, and to celebrate the significant milestone, the organization will host free anniversary events every Saturday in August throughout the state, including on the Big Island.

Pōhakuloa Training Area notifies the public that they might hear military units during scheduled training events in August at the U.S. Army facility.

The 2022-23 school year begins Monday, Aug. 1, and with it comes a change in traffic flow for a portion of the mornings on a Hilo roadway while school is in session.

Microscopic life in lava caves and tubes on the Big Island that are hundreds of years old could help understand how life might have existed on early Earth and Mars.

An assistant professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center has introduced a therapy to the islands that helps modify T cells, a type of immune cell, to make them more capable of fighting cancer.

AARP Hawai‘i wants to honor volunteers dedicated to community service.

A North Hawai‘i hospital announces that is now has COVID-19 vaccinations for younger keiki.

The Department of Public Safety on Friday welcomed a new class of adult correctional officers at a graduation ceremony held at the Neal Blaisdell Center in Honolulu.

Friday night, after two-and-a-half years of being shut down due to COVID, the East Hawai‘i Cultural Center in Hilo opened its renovated and restored theatre with the heartwarming, timely and often hilarious Grammy, Oscar and eight-time Tony Award winning musical, “Cabaret.”

The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for the Big Island from 6 a.m.. Sunday, July 31 to 6 p.m. that evening. Northeast to east winds 15 to 30 mph with localized gusts to 50 mph can be expected.

A generous donation is giving Hawai‘i families the option to prepare their children for kindergarten at home and at no financial cost to them.

The Salvation Army Kona Corps reported Friday, July 29, that their facility was broken into sometime in the last 24-48 hours where apparent thieves took off with $1,000 worth of back-to-school supplies for keiki in need, and $3,000 worth of food and other items.

Hawai‘i Police Department’s South Kohala Community Policing Section congratulated all the winners of the Kohala Keiki Fishing Derby on Saturday, July 23 in Kawaihae at the Pua Ka ‘Ilima ‘O Kawaihae Cultural Surf Park.

The state Department of Transportation issued its weekly road and lane closures for July 30 through Aug. 5. Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice.

The National Weather Service issued on Friday, July 29 a fire weather watch for Ka‘ū and the leeward side of Hawai‘i Island beginning Sunday morning through the evening.

Four Seasons Resort Hualālai planted its 50,000th tree within the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai Legacy Forest.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands announced the availability of $8.5 million for its Community Development Grants Program, part of DHHL’s Native Hawaiian Development Program Plan.

HPD releases its weekly outstanding warrants list.

Hawai‘i Island police report that 17-year-old Anuhea Pinheiro-Basque, who was previously reported as a runaway, was located in Hilo on Thursday.