North Hawaii News

Volunteers are needed to support hospital patients and their families. No special skills are required. The only qualification required is your desire to help others.  

All financial assistance approved moving forward will be prioritized, and funds will be disbursed to households facing eviction, utility shutoff or who have an unemployed adult and are at risk of homelessness.

Hawai‘i Department of Transportation announced weekly lane closures for Nov. 5-11.

Have you voted yet? There’s only three days left to turn in your ballot to be counted. The deadline is 7 p.m. on Nov. 8.

The 2022 race for governor features two men who each have served the state as lieutenant governor.

The county’s housing office says the way to deal with the problem is: housing, housing, housing. The County Council understands housing is a component of the solution but says it’s not the only one.

The bill proposes several “sensitive places” where carrying a licensed firearm, concealed or not, would be prohibited on the Big Island.

Clients with appointments and patients waiting for results of ultrasounds, mammograms and other imaging services say they have been left in the dark by the for-profit company, Hawai’i Radiologic Associates.

The grant money would come from a special Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Maintenance Fund.

The state-funded, four-year project on Kohala Mountain will manage non-native feral pigs and promote native forest regeneration.

Being safe is no trick; a few common-sense tips can help make Halloween is safe and fun for keiki and adults alike.

Hawai‘i Department of Transportation announced weekly lane closures for Oct. 29-Nov. 4.

Trimming and maintenance of Waipiʻo Valley Road will being in November, followed by a major three-phase repair and mitigation project to begin in Spring 2023.

The goal of the event is to help reduce the risk of prescription drug abuse.

So far this year, there have been 802 DUI arrests compared with 861 during the same period last year, a decrease of 6.9%.

The new upgrade will not affect any process on the user’s end.

There are Halloween activities around the Big Island — for keiki to adults. Check out the list that includes haunted houses, witches on the water, a menacing maze and Howl-ween with four-legged friends.

Firefighters extinguished the blaze after about two hours and the Red Cross was called to help the property owners.

Hawaiʻi County said: “The current condition poses substantial endangerment to public health and safety and warrants preemptive and protective action in order to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of the people using the road.”

Vector control operations will take place at the park during the morning.