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While the business district of Pāhoa came dangerously close to being devoured by lave during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption, it was spared. But the town and its people were left reeling. Five residents talk about life then and now.

Kīlauea’s activity from 2018 until 2023 has been compared to cycles of summit collapse and refilling of lava prior to 1924, but it also exhibited similar behavior during the 1967-68 Halema‘uma‘u eruption.

In the latest Volcano Watch, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists are looking for a new place to put a summit gas measuring station to replace the one destroyed by the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption.

Kīlauea erupted on June 7, 2023 at 4:44 a.m. on Hawaiʻi Island. The volcano put on quite the spectacular lava show duing the first day of this eruption. Check out the video and slideshow.

Activity from the latest Kīlauea eruption is concentrated in a large lava lake in the eastern half of the summit crater and a smaller lake to the west.

This new Kīlauea eruption is viewable from almost all open areas around the caldera in Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park, but there are some parts of the park that are closed to protect breeding and nesting nēnē.

The eruption began on the evening of Dec. 20 from the Halema‘uma‘u crater at the volcano’s summit.

An eruption has commenced within Kīlauea’s summit caldera.

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Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park released a lits of activities scheduled for next month.

In just over three months, the equivalent of eight years of Kīlauea’s magma supply engulfed over 13.7 square miles, creating 875 acres of new land.

Attorney Jeffrey E. Foster will hold a free town hall meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, about the recently announced Lloyd’s of London class action settlement in New Jersey.

HELCO is currently working to reconnect 28 customers residing east of the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) facility.

Hawaiʻi County has launched a new phase of Talk Action, Take Action, as part of the gather-information-share-information initiative for Kīlauea eruption recovery.

Park officials reopened Nāpau Crater and a two-mile section of trail in Kīlauea volcano’s East Rift Zone wilderness on July 11, 2019.

Sen. Mazie K. Hirono secured a commitment from Ormat Technologies Executive Paul Thomsen at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on June 20.

Seventy-seven of the 1,002 Individuals and Households Program Assistance applicants on the Big Island have received a request to return funds to FEMA.

Sen. Schatz to pass legislation that provides more than $80 million in new federal funding to help Hawai‘i recover from a recent series of natural disasters.

A new television series, Hearts of Heroes, will be airing an episode featuring the the Big Island community this Saturday, May 18, 2019, at 10 a.m. on KITV.

With the anniversary of the Kīlauea Volcano’s 2018 LERZ eruption upon us, HVO staff, like many Hawai‘i residents, are reflecting on this historic event.