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Hilo, Pāhoa, Waimea, Pahala, Kailua-Kona and Keaʻau will host their annual Christmas parades for Hawaiʻi Island communities throughout the next three weeks.

Two students were awarded $500 for their essays about their volunteer service and connecting it with their specific communities.

The Island of Hawaiʻi YMCA has planned three family-friendly events for the week of Halloween.

Kauhale I Ke Kula Uka offers 99 affordable housing units for families earning up to 60% of area median income.

The County of Hawaiʻi and Volcano Village community partnered together to repair the beloved wooden skatepark and reopen after four and a half years.

Dawn Patterson, Rachel Edrman, Napua Arakaki-Heen, Megan Brady and Syd Wang were awarded $10,000 total in microgrants.

The purpose of the study is to find and analyze potential alternative routes in Puna to help alleviate the district’s longstanding traffic congestion and address the need for another evacuation route when natural disasters strike. 

All talks are held from noon to 1 p.m. in the UH Hilo Kilohana Academic Success Center, located on the first floor of Mo‘okini Library.

Everywhere you looked Saturday at Mo‘oheau Park and Bandstand in downtown Hilo, the party was hopping. Diversity was on display in several different senses of the word. Friends and family came together to have fun. Smiles and hugs were commonplace and given out freely. There was joy, laughter, happiness, inclusiveness and acceptance. All attributes that lend themselves to celebration.

Due to high rates of stress, depression and suicide among farmers, Seeds of Wellbeing was developed in fall 2021.

The sixth-generation resident of Hāmākua and her husband Bodhi own Sugar Hill Farmstead in Honomū.

The Gulick-Rowell House in Waimea was built using coral limestone cut from offshore reefs. A nonprofit hopes to transform the nearly 200-year-old building into a community space.

There were no formal speakers, but there was plenty of laughter, hugs, music and food, with a few tears; it was almost like a family reunion of sorts, exactly how Kenoi’s youngest sister Kina Kenoi Sai said her brother would have wanted it.

Pledge to Our Keiki is designed to amplify the voices of Hawaiʻi students, focusing collective efforts on community needs.

Monday’s Big Island project was part of a larger effort by more than 1,000 volunteers working statewide.

The event runs features music from San Diego-based band We The Commas, with an opening act by local punk band Flamingo Rider.

A benefit of joining a gym is meeting other people who can support you in your fitness goals.

More than 130 community members, including breast cancer survivors and thrivers, painted Hilo Bayfront on the Big Island pink in support of the cause Saturday morning during the 5K fun run/walk and accompanying festival

Gam3Escape is your gateway to adventure and, as its name suggests with the “3” mirroring the “E,” an escape from the stresses of everyday life.

Join Thelma Parker Memorial Public Library on July 29 for the Seeds of Knowledge Community Fair, a free and family-friendly event that celebrates its end-of summer reading challenge.