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Merrie Monarch Festival moves forward with its regular presentation and 59th anniversary – after a cancellation in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and no live audience in 2021. Some live audience will be allowed this year and only a fraction of tickets were sold to the public.

Puna Geothermal Venture will host a virtual community meeting Wednesday, April 13 at 4 p.m.

After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, the ever-popular Big Island Chocolate Festival is presenting a reimagined edition May 13-14 at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort and Spa.

The U.S. Army prepared a draft environmental impact statement regarding its proposed retention of up to approximately 23,000 acres of state-owned land to support continued military training at Pōhakuloa Training Area on the island of Hawai‘i.

Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia will depart Sand Island, Oʻahu for Hilo at 8 a.m. Sunday, April 10.

The state Department of Transportation released its list of road and lane closures for the week of April 9-15. Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice. All projects are weather permitting.

The Puainako Street and Kanoelehua Avenue intersection in Hilo is now open.

Hawai‘i Island police report that 15-year-old Zoelynn Puaoi-Pinheiro, who was previously reported as a runaway, was located in Hilo in good health on Monday, March 28.

The annual Point In Time Count data released on April 7 show downward trends in some categories, although neighbor islands as a whole saw a slight increase of roughly 1% in homeless population numbers.

Gov. David Ige released $4,500,000 in capital improvement project funds to finance the construction costs for west ramp demolition and lease lots at Hilo International Airport on the island of Hawaiʻ

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands held a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, April 8 for the first phase of its Honomū Subsistence Agriculture Homestead Community in South Hilo.

In a decision-making meeting today, the Senate Committee on Ways and Means voted to pass a measure that would establish the Mauna a Wākea stewardship authority as the sole authority for management of state-managed lands on Mauna a Wākea.

HPD released its weekly outstanding warrants list.

A Puna man was sentenced to consecutive prison terms in Hilo Circuit Court for property crimes and a resisting an order to stop case.

I think the Island of Hawaiʻi is one of the most magical places on Earth. You can literally see land in the making when one of the volcanoes is erupting. But the familiar sight of red-glowing lava flows makes it hard to imagine a time when eruptions were different, and to think that such a time may come again someday.

A number of tour guides and boating professionals are questioning the company’s practice of having its crew enter the water from the stern of the boat where the vessel’s engines were in wake of a fatal accident earlier this week in waters outside of Honokohau Marina.

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

The new owners of a commercial kitchen space in Keaukaha are taking an innovative approach to addressing food security and agribusiness development.

The state is warning residents about an increase in fraudulent schemes targeting those filing for unemployment benefits.

The University of Hawaiʻi is now part of a team of hydrologic researchers throughout the United States and Canada, whose mission is to help the nation get water and weather ready.