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University of Hawai‘i community colleges are offering a way for island residents to gain valuable training for jobs in several sectors — for free — this summer.

Eighteen students from Kaʻū High School who were part of an agriculture entrepreneurship program received certificates of achievement in agriculture from Hawaiʻi Community College on Friday, May 13, during the college’s 81st commencement ceremony.

State Sheriffs and Honolulu Police are searching for one inmate who escaped from the Waiawa Correctional Facility Saturday evening on O‘ahu.

The Hawai‘i Police Department reports at 8 p.m. Saturday that Highway 19 at mile 15 near Honomū in the Hāmākua District is Closed due to a motor vehicle crash.

Hawai‘i Community College – Pālamanui celebrated graduation on Saturday, May 14 in drive-though fashion, where some of the cars and truck beds were as decorated as the departing students.

The Hawai‘i County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney sent a letter urging Gov. David Ige to sign House Bill No. 1486, HD2, SD1 into law, which would increase the penalty for felony theft of motor vehicles and motorcycles from a maximum five-year prison term to a maximum 10-year prison term.

The Hawai‘i Police Department reported one lane is open on Highway 11 near mile 97, North of Kona Paradise, in South Kona. It closed early this morning due a motor vehicle crash and downed utility poles.

Hawai‘i Community College celebrated its first in-person commencement ceremony in two years Friday, May 13, and while faculty, administration and speakers reflected on the challenges — and triumphs — throughout the pandemic, their message to graduates was not to look back, but to move forward and leave their mark on the future.

The Hawai‘i Police Department has been plagued by staffing shortages from various departments for several years.

The state Department of Transportation announced its weekly road and lane closures for the week of May 14-20. Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice.

Highway 11, near mile marker 97, north of Kona Paradise, in South Kona is closed due to a traffic accident, the police department stated Saturday around 5:30 a.m.

The county is reminding the public that Waipiʻo Valley Road will be closed, except for emergency vehicles, next week.

Kealakehe High School senior Kea E. Kahoilua-Clebsch was named as one of two Hawai‘i scholars in the 58th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced on Friday, May 13.

Improvements by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to an existing County of Hawaiʻi Department of Water Supply system in Kaʻū will soon connect Pastoral homestead lessees in the Kamāʻoa Homestead to water service.

The Kolosov family’s new life in Pahala feels like a dream, detached from reality, because their home is in the Ukraine, and life, as they used to know it, has been destroyed in the war.

Maui Fire Department confirmed that the seven fire calls today between a 90-minute time span in Central Maui are suspicious in nature and under investigation, Mauai News Now reported.

Likana Lane in Kailua-Kona will be closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, Friday, May 13, for sewer line work.

A 35-year-old Hilo man and repeat offender is facing theft charges in relation to a stolen Honda CR-V from a parking lot of a Hilo business on May 7.

HPD releases its weekly outstanding warrants list.

Parking at the Waialea Bay Marine Life Conservation District will be closed during the mornings of May 17-19 to allow spawning and the production of new keiki offspring.