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Among the many measures approved during the 2022 state legislative session, which ended Thursday, May 5, were several bills that will benefit the environment and continue the state’s push toward the use of clean energy.

Hawaiʻi County Mayor Mitch Roth traveled to Utah during the weekend to attend the 2021 IRONMAN World Championship, which was postponed from last October and moved from the Big Island because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authorities have identified the victim killed in an early-morning two-car crash near Waikoloa Beach Resort.

Hawai‘i Island residents and visitors are invited to attend Police Week festivities, including station tours, during the national event next week.

A Puna man is scheduled to appear in Hilo District Court this afternoon on various methamphetamine possession and attempted distribution drug charges.

The Kūpuna Caucus secured over $30 million in funding for various programs, centers and resources aimed at caring for and protecting kūpuna across the state during this legislative session, the caucus stated.

Hawai‘i police officials confirm one fatality following a car crash on Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway between Waikōloa Road and Waikōloa Beach Drive early this morning.

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa play performed exclusively in Hawaiian language has won several awards through a national theatre program.

The ocean is suffering from “amnesia” because of climate change, according to a recently published study that was co-authored by a University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa professor.

University of Hawaiʻi students throughout all 10 campuses feel safer overall from sexual harassment and gender-based violence, according to the 2021 UH Student Campus Climate Survey.

Queen’s North Hawai‘i Community Hospital in Waimea has several opportunities for residents of the Big Island to get some financial help for college.

A new episode in a video series created and hosted by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park rangers invites everyone to learn about the single gourd drum used in hula.

Three West Hawai’i police officers were recently honored by a crime prevention organization.

It’s Mother’s Day. You might have gotten Mom her favorite box of chocolates to go along with those flowers. But have you ever wondered how much engineering goes into each individual truffle or chocolate nugget?

The Arc of Hilo was the most recent beneficiary of the Ohana Fuels “Fuel Up. Do Good” community giving program.

Hawaiʻi’s voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia sailed into Papeete, Tahiti this afternoon and received a large royal welcome from the Tahitian community, including French Polynesia President Édouard Fritch and other dignitaries.

Around 1,000 people gathered on Saturday to pay respects to beloved Big Island son Johnny Lum Ho at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium in Hilo.

Less than two years after being elected to Congress, U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele announced on Saturday he’s launching his run for governor.

Loder, the improv coach at the Aloha Theatre, has created the Big Island Improv Jam, an improv troupe that meets the first Monday of the month at 6 p.m. at the theater in Kainaliu.

Hawai‘i Island police have located 43-year-old Anson-Ely Saragosa of Mountain View who was previously reported missing.