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The Hōlei Sea Arch on the coast of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park lost a chunk rock after last weekend’s Southern Hemishpere Swell battered Hawai‘i Island’s Southern shores.

The state is looking for people to serve on the new board tasked with managing lands on Maunakea.

Election season is in full swing and the Hawai‘i Democratic Party invites voters to meet its candidates face-to-face before next month’s primary election.

Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, which has a clinic in Hilo, is one of three Hawai‘i Pacific Health medical centers to receive the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke quality achievement award.

A former employee of the county Office of Housing and Community Development pleaded guilty in federal court to a felony offense of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud.

Pōhakuloa Training Area reports a brush fire in the South Kohala area of PTA between Daniel K. Inouye Highway and Highway 190.

A Kona man is dead after a suspected drowning near a county park along the 5700 block of Ali‘i Drive on Sunday, July 17, 2022.

Kona Community Hospital administrators decided Wednesday, July 20, to deploy its Blu-Med tent outside the Emergency Department to triage incoming patients as the facility exceeds capacity.

It looks like a bus ride on the Big Island will continue to be free of charge for at least another two and a half years.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved $8.8 million in community project funding for several projects throughout Hawaiʻi’s second congressional district, including some on the Big Island, that will benefit underserved communities and provide much needed funding to deserving nonprofits.

The state Department of Health reported 4,329 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, July 20, bringing the statewide total to 321,869.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is asking the public to provide comment for an annual report to the U.S. Office of Housing and Urban Development.

Big Island police continue their crackdown on motorists who drive under the influence of an intoxicant.

The efforts of a group at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to expand the use of ōlelo Hawaiʻi throughout the islands and around the world have garnered honors.

The county Department of Public Works will take another look at adding some bicycle lanes into a road project underway on a portion of a major corridor in Hilo.

Interfaith Communities in Action will be holding a FUNdraising Walk at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium to support their signature fund “Hale ka Po’e Keiki,” or homes for children.

A Hilo man accused of brandishing a firearm at two 16-year-olds after assaulting a woman outside a Hilo apartment is slated to appear for a preliminary hearing in District Court Wednesday afternoon.

Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating 14-year-old Bella Gaseta, of Mountain View, who was reported as a runaway.

The public is invited to attend an online meeting of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary advisory council next week.

The power line wildfire on the southeast flank of Mauna Loa in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is 100% contained and is holding at 42.5 acres in size, HVNP stated in a news release Tuesday, July 19.