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Chef Jasmine Silverstein says her Meals in a HeartBeet business is “locally sourced, but globally inspired.”

Hale Hālāwai o Puna aims to deepen community connection and cultural engagement by offering demonstrations and promoting sustainable tourism that values the land and its traditions.

37-year-old Jake Kiko is charged with first-degree hindering prosecution, a Class C felony, in connection with the search for 28-year-old Isaiah Fourshey, who allegedly shot and killed 25-year-old Latisha Soares on March 4 in Mountain View and later died following a police-involved shooting.

25-year-old Latisha Soares was allegedly shot and killed by her sister’s ex-boyfriend 28-year-old Isaiah Kaleo Jiaan Fourshey of Mountain View early Tuesday morning after an earlier alleged shooting involving him at her parents home.

Community policing officers will meet and talk story with residents in Kailua-Kona on Friday, Waikōloa on Feb. 27 and in Keaʻau on March 1.

Nine men and 3 women were arrested Jan. 21 on warrants for various offenses, ranging from contempt of court and failure to appear to violating conditions of release.

Biochar is speculated to have been used as a soil supplement thousands of years ago in the Amazon River basis, where regions of fertile soil called ‘terra preta,’ or ‘dark earth,’ were created by indigenous people.

31-year-old Jannefer Kaspar was last seen in the Orchidland subdivision of Kurtistown on Dec. 26, 2024.

This is the 29th traffic fatality on Hawai‘i Island in 2024 compared to 15 this time last year.

The 600-square-foot structure on Alapai Street appeared to be under construction but unfinished.

36-year-old Sione Siale was arrested and charged following the incident Dec. 11 at a residence on Pearl Drive. He is charged with first-degree reckless endangering, 2 counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and ownership or possession of firearm or ammunition prohibited.

A 30-year old man was arrested by Puna patrol officers while they responded to calls from a reported burglary in the Hawaiian Beaches Subdivision last Tuesday.

41-year-old Henry Tangitau of Pāhoa faces charges of first-degree terroristic threatening, second-degree unlawful imprisonment, first-degree curelty to animals, others in connection with a domestic incident Tuesday at a residence in Leilani Estates.

The holiday season meetings are an effort to reach out to and engage with the residents of the lawmaker’s congressional district, giving them an opportunity to share topics important to their community.

77-year-old Lowell Thomas Pofahl of Nānāwale Estates faces several charges including second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault following a domestic incident the night of Nov. 22, after which he called Hawai‘i Police Department dispatch and told authorities he tried to kill his wife.

East Hawai‘i residents are invited to attend three Coffee With a Cop events this week in Pāpa‘aloa, Hilo, and Volcano, to get to know their district police officers.

Native Hawaiian oral traditions record a rich history of the changing volcanic landscape in Hawaiʻi. Interweaving cultural knowledge with scientific disciplines can provide a more complete understanding of past events, including the largest known lava flow eruption of Kīlauea.

The Hilo Benioff Medical Center is planning a fundamental extension of its services with a proposed out-patient medical facility on about 9 acres of land near Keaʻau High School.

Hawai‘i Island police report 39-year-old Matthew James Naden was located in good health.

15-year-old King Kehoe found in Puna and in good health.