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Big Island police are asking for the public’s help with finding a missing teen.

The Hawai‘i Police Department reported at 1:35 p.m. today that all lanes on Highway 11 are now again open and thanked the public for its patience.

Defense counsel for a Kona man accused of murdering two houseless men and assaulting two other houseless individuals in Hilo filed motion to suspend the preliminary hearing for mental evaluation.

Three people from East Hawai‘i faces charges in connection with an agricultural theft earlier this month.

Big Island police report that Highway 19 is now open.

Most Big Island rain gauges saw near to above average rainfall amounts last month, according to a report from the National Weather Service in Honolulu.

Hawai‘i Island police report that 16-year-old Donald Soares IV, who was reported as a runaway, was located on Thursday, June 9 in Mountain View in good health.

A recent report highlights the impact of cancer health disparities on Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

A paper recently published in Journal of General Internal Medicine details how the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm in which private laboratories can earn huge profits from polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing while potentially impacting health care premium costs.

Ali‘i Drive in North Kona is reopened in both directions between Honl’s Surf Spot and Lunapule Road after a water main break and sewage spill.

A more than $350,000 grant from a national foundation will support research by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientist to answer a question: What about the damage imposed by everything else that tsunami waves sweep up, such as shipping containers, structures and vehicles?

Hawai‘i can experience hazards that can force many people from their homes, but its remote location and fragile supply chain make it much harder to ship in supplies to provide temporary shelter when a disaster such as a hurricane or tsunami strikes.

Temporary closures of several areas at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park in Kona are planned this month.

Want to discuss an issue in your neighborhood? Need to voice your concern about something? Or do you just want to have a chat? No matter why you turn out, the community policing officers in your district want to listen.

Two schools and two students from the Big Island were recently honored by the Hawai‘i Medical Service Association.

The Zonta Club of Hilo is accepting microgrant applications to provide funding for women-owned small businesses on Hawai‘i Island.

A wind advisory is in effect for Hawai‘i Island from 6 p.m. this evening until 6 a.m. Monday, the National Weather service announced Saturday afternoon.

Melodic harmonies performed in the Hawaiian language (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) will fill the virtual premiere of a University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo keiki-friendly musical about a poetic mouse.

Videos capture the King Kamehameha Day Parade’s return to downtown Kailua-Kona after a two-year hiatus.

Hawaiʻi County Department of Public Works Engineering Division, alongside Jas W. Glover, Ltd, will be working on Hurricane Lane Damage Repairs to the Laupāhoehoe Culvert.