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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.

The Hawai‘i Police Department, like other departments around the state, is revising its permitting application process for people to carry firearms in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on a landmark case out of New York.

Big Island police are investigating a single-vehicle collision in South Kohala that left a 26-year-old Waimea man severely injured.

The National Weather Service has cancelled a high surf advisory for all south facing shores of Hawai‘i Island, it reported Tuesday afternoon.

A 25-year-old Hilo man was charged in relation to a domestic and firearms related incident that occurred in July.

L&L restaurants nationwide next month will celebrate Hawai‘i’s favorite comfort food: SPAM.

A high surf warning has been downgraded to an advisory for all south-facing shores of the main Hawaiian Islands.

Update: HPD reported Kawaihae Road in South Kohala, which was closed earlier due to a vehicle collision, is now open in both directions, the county reported at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, July 19.

The Hawai‘i County Council Committee on Public Works and Mass Transit is expected to get an update Tuesday, July 19, regarding the rehabilitation project for Waiānuenue Avenue in Hilo.

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Kira Kaeha who was reported as a runaway on Tuesday, July 12. She was last seen on Friday, June 17 in the 100 block of Hoku Street in Hilo. Kaeha is known to frequent the Hilo district.

The technical issues affecting its communications center and 911 call system have been resolved.