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The Pa‘auilo-based nonprofit Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative, which has planted more than 2,000 native trees as part of the partnership with Gentry Homes, says: ‘Hawai‘i’s most valuable asset is its ecosystem. We all have a responsibility to protect it.’

Hawai‘i Department of Transportation announced the airport’s sole runway was closed due to delays in repairing cracks discovered in the asphalt on Jan. 16. The airport shut down for several hours after the cracks were initially discovered.

The airport’s sole runway was closed at midnight and expected to reopen at 6 a.m. to allow crews to repair cracks found in the asphalt in January.

The Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighters team will be testing its response protocol to a live emergency scenario involving burning fuel.

Alaska Airlines is adding new nonstop service between Alaska Airlines is adding new nonstop service between Paine Field-Snohomish County Airport outside of Seattle and Honolulu starting in the fall.

The draft management plan is now available online for the 1,257-acre Kapāpala Canoe Forest, the only state land designated for cultivating and providing koa for use in kālaiwaʻa, or traditional Hawaiian canoe construction.

“Flight 2, I don’t know if you copied, but Skymaster … just crashed off the north end,” said the air traffic controller at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport on the Big Island.

“Office space that was previously available to Hawaiʻi Police Department at the Kona airport prior to the Federal Inspection Service Center opening will soon be available again,” said Hawa’i Department of Transportation Director Ed Sniffen.

Big Island Now will provide information about the Mauna Loa eruption as it is made available. This information will be updated regularly.

With the recent completion of the $58.7 million federal inspection services facility and the $8 million new agricultural inspection station ready to launch in November, the modernization project that began a half a decade ago will be complete – and the footprint of Kona’s quaint, outdoor airport forever changed. But ask the Kona Airport District Manager, Chauncey Wong Yuen, if he think the work is done, he’ll tell you far from it.

Gov. David Ige welcomes first Japan Airlines flight back to Hawai’i at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport this morning.

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor and several others recently lent a hand to a civic club on O’ahu in an effort to reforest the area surrounding a sacred monument.

By all accounts, the monarch butterfly is doing well throughout the Hawaiian Islands. But that doesn’t mean all butterfly species that call the state home, including the Big Island and Kaua’i, are flourishing.

Total statewide arrivals stayed below 500 on both Friday and Saturday, a reduction of more than 98% year-over-year on corresponding dates in 2019. 

Picketing Hawaiian Airline flight attendants leaflet airports throughout the Hawaiian Islands.

There will be two training fires daily at approximately 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Alaska Airlines is dropping a daily flight between Kona and San Francisco/Sacramento.

The CIP funding will go toward Phase 1 of the work, which will include construction to provide terminal building improvements to increase capacity, efficiency and security for passengers,

A valuable gift of exquisite bowls by one of Hawai‘i’s outstanding wood-turners and master craftsman are now on display in the UH Law Library at the William S. Richardson School of Law.

If you are planning on traveling this labor day, you may want to have someone drop you off at the airport instead of trying to find parking at the airport.