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The National Weather Service has extended a high surf advisory for Big Island’s west-facing shores to 6 p.m.

Confusion over property boundaries in Kaloko Mauka pitted a handful of hikers and neighbors against a pair of landowners who wanted to begin building homes on their private parcels.

Hawai‘i police have initiated terroristic threatening cases in connection to threats received by personnel at Waiākea High School two days in a row.

One lane on Daniel K. Inouye Highway between Hilo and Mauna Kea Road junction is closed due to a truck fire.

A Hilo man indicted on sexual assault charges last month pleaded not guilty in 3rd Circuit Court on Tuesday, Jan. 4.

Seven Big Island groups were recently awarded funding in support of programs and projects they are working on to preserve the island’s natural resources.

About 100 Soldiers from two units of the Hawai‘i Army National Guard have been notified by the Department of Defense about an upcoming deployment to the Middle East, state officials announced Thursday afternoon.

Known to many as “Pele’s Grandson,” Alexander (“Alex” or “Alec”) Lancaster guided both tourists and scientists to Hawai‘i’s volcanoes for over forty years, from 1885 to 1928.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Maui County Fire Department on Thursday rescued two mariners aboard a disabled watercraft off Pe‘ahi, on the north shore of Maui.

A Paʻauilo man is scheduled to appear in Hilo District today on charges of attempted possession and distribution of more than five pounds of methamphetamine and damaging a police vehicle following his arrest on Jan. 3 Paʻauilo.

Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Kerryann Duarte who was reported as a runaway.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health reported 4,789 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 130,856. Four new fatalities were reported.

Hawaiʻi Department of Education Interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi reassured the public that school was back in session and the district is committed to in-person learning amid a third surge in COVID-19 cases.

The state Department of Public Safety on Wednesday released updated testing results for Hawai’i prisons and jails as well as the contracted Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz.

A high surf advisory is in effect for west-facing shores until 6 a.m. Friday.

Authorities have identified the 9-year-old killed in a car crash on New Yearʻs Day on Mauna Kea Access Road as Kelsirose Adelka of Kailua-Kona.

Bail was denied for a Kona man charged with attempted murder in connection with a domestic abuse incident last month.

During the week of Dec. 27, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022, Big Island police arrested 33 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.

Users of the Hele-On public transit system now have a new, free way to get around in urban areas of the Big Island.

The current COVID-19 surge hitting Hawaiʻi Island has resulted in a shortage of personnel at Kona Community Hospital as many staff members have been directly exposed or tested positive for the virus.