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COVID-19 testing and vaccination are scheduled in Hilo, Waimea and Kona today, Aug. 14.

Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation announced weekly road and lane closures for Aug. 14-20.

The Hawaiʻi Department Health reports 791 new COVID-19 cases as of Saturday, Aug. 14, bringing the statewide total to 50,355.

Approximately 320 acres have been scorched in a brush fire that ignited in South Kohala near mile marker 48.5 off of Daniel K. Inouye Highway Friday, Aug. 13.

An increase in COVID-19 cases was reported in public schools across all Hawaiʻi Department of Educationʻs complexes on the Big Island.

A section of Daniel K. Inouye Highway will remain closed as firefighters continue to battle a brush fire that has scorched approximately 210 acres near mile marker 48.

The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations will start accepting telephone appointments for complex, disputed unemployment insurance claims.

Authorities are seeking the publicʻs assistance locating a Puna man who is considered armed and dangerous.

A portion of Daniel K. Inouye Highway is closed as emergency personnel battle a brush fire near mile marker 48.5, officials reported this afternoon.

In Hawai´i’s attempts to forge a new normal, the state has stumbled into an unprecedented phase of the same old pandemic, only this time on steroids.

All Hawai‘i State Department of Education (HIDOE) employees will be required to be tested weekly for COVID-19 beginning Aug. 23 to comply with a recent vaccination mandate passed down by Gov. David Ige.

Native Hawaiian health care centers across the state will receive $20 million in federal funding as they continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hawaiʻi Police Department released its weekly outstanding warrants list for Aug. 13, 2021.

The record number of COVID-19 cases reported in a day was once again shattered with the Department of Health confirming 1,167 new cases this morning, Aug. 13.

More people were probably killed by the 1790 eruption of Kīlauea than by any other eruption in what is now the United States.

Hawai‘i County Councilwoman Ashley Kierkiewicz, who represents the eastern Puna district, plans to present a resolution to her colleagues in the coming weeks to create a task force to address what she describes as a squatting crisis on the Big Island.

The State and County of Hawai´i are on the edge of a healthcare crisis.

Hawai‘i Community College is offering a new Academic Subject Certificate (ASC) in Sustainability starting in the Fall 2021 semester that aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to help address some of today’s biggest challenges.

A new comet discovered this summer by University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Hakeakalā may become bright enough for spectators to see as it moves closer to Earth.

Bay Clinic will hold another event on Saturday, Sept. 4 to administer the second dose of the vaccine.