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We have all the information you need about the championship week and race day, including course routes, road impacts, spectator information and much more.

Qualifying hosts can receive $500 per displaced person each month, up to a maximum of $2,000 per host household a month; this short-term assistance will be available as funding allows to help ease the financial burden on households providing a safe place for displaced friends and family.

The expedition will utilize remotely operated vehicles and seafloor mapping technologies to explore never-before-seen ridges, seamounts and abyssal plains throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago.

Viewer discretion advised; footage from an incident Wednesday afternoon during which an officer shot and killed 31-year-old Nafetelai Teisina of Ocean View, who was determined to have died from a single gunshot wound, following an alleged theft in the parking lot of an Ocean View shopping center.

However, state health officials still urge the public to avoid brown, murky coastal waters, especially following storms or heavy rainfall.

Public, private, charter and homeschool students may enter the competition, with entries due Dec. 12.

Heavy flooding has forced the closure of Highway 11 between mile markers 59 and 63 on Hawaiʻi Island.

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural food producers impacted by the 2026 Kona Low storms.each received up to $10,000.

A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake near Panama this morning, but at 8:38 a.m. the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu said there is no threat of a tsunami to Hawaiʻi.

The fact that the Island of Hawaiʻi has active volcanoes means we have lots and lots of earthquakes; most aren’t strong enough to be felt let alone devastating, but every once in a while, large earthquakes are produced, such as the magnitude-6 in West Hawaiʻi earlier this year.

Defending World Champion Solveig Løvseth of Norway heads up the elite women’s field, while German Patrick Lange, a three-time World Champion, is a sentimental favorite on the men’s side.

Five triathletes spoke at the Ironman World Championship Athlete Ambassador panel on Wednesday, where they took to the stage at the Ironman Village set up at Hale Hālāwai in Historic Kailua Village and shared their story and journey to Kona.

Hawaiʻi County Council has propelled Bill 192 toward a second reading, potentially extending funding for the county’s Homeless and Housing Fund to June 2029, amidst debates on its effectiveness.

An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point on Oʻahu shortly after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday hoisted a 55-year-old man from the vessel and safely transferred him to Hilo International Airport so he could be taken to get higher medical care.

The incident began when a woman flagged down a police officer in a commercial parking lot for the theft of her glasses or sunglasses, Hawaiʻi Police Chief Reed Mahuna said.

The declarations provide Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance funding on a cost-sharing basis to supplement recovery efforts in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi County and Maui County following Hurricane Lala in August, as well as Kauaʻi and Maui counties for impacts from Hurricane Lowell in September.

Violations of restrictions can result in civil fines up to $75,000, criminal fines up to $100,000, up to a year in prison and seizure of the drone.

State reminds residents that they can play a part detecting and stopping the spread of invasive ants.

Keith K. Okamoto reflects on the successes and challenges from the last 30 years with the Hawaiʻi County Department of Water Supply as he announces his retirement.

Community members and their pets are welcome to join the hospital’s pet therapy teams for the 2-mile walk Oct. 10 starting at 8 a.m., rain or shine.