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With about 131,358 registered voters in Hawai‘i County, less than half, 44,382, cast ballots.

Incumbent Mayor Mitch Roth will meet challenger Kimo Alameda in the general election on Nov. 5 following a relatively close primary race, according to preliminary results posted late Saturday night by the state Office of Elections. Roth maintained a lead over the packed race, with a total of seven candidates vying for the job. The […]

For the first time in the history of the festival, a portion of Ali‘i Drive will remain closed all day for the celebration.

Students from Waikōloa Elementary and Middle Schools, Waimea Middle School, Konawaena Elementary and Middle School and Hawaiian immersion school ​Alo Kēhau o ka ʻĀina Mauna were bussed into Kona to spend the day enjoying activities from swimming to ring tossing, putting golf, basketball and shooting a fire hose at a cardboard house.

The public park runs along the rocky shoreline in Kailua-Kona, consisting of picnic tables, a small, sandy beach and a grassy area with palm trees overhead.

The new office will work toward implementing policies and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote renewable energy, enhance energy efficiency, protect biodiversity and fortify infrastructure against the impacts of climate change.

The new cabinet-level office will lead the Hawai‘i County’s efforts to ensure the Big Island can withstand the effects of climate change.

Hawai’i County Council chair Heather Kimball and Danielle M. Bass, the state’s Sustainability Coordinator, will be guest speakers at the July 6 Waimea Community Association meeting that will focus on sustainability and resilience.

Public Works Director Steve Pause said that “the Department has been working for some time to develop alternative means and methods to achieve maintenance of County infrastructure without the reliance on chemical herbicides.”

A bill that would create a new cabinet-level Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity and Resilience and a new chapter in Hawaiʻi County code to govern it is moving forward.

The proposed new Hawaiʻi County Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity and Resilience would establish a new cabinet-level office responsible for coordinating and managing policies to promote sustainability and resilience in response to the impacts of climate change and other natural and manmade hazards.

The Hawai’i County Council celebrated the Konawaena High School Wildcats on Wednesday before moving on to agenda items during its regular session meeting. The Wildcats won the Division I state high school football championship last November, bringing the school’s first-ever state football championship back to the Big Island.

The new Council was inaugurated and sworn in during the Hawai‘i County Inaugural Ceremony on Monday afternoon at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium in Hilo.

The Hawai‘i County Inaugural Ceremony is at noon Monday at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium in Hilo.

The Hawai’i County Council on Wednesday approved the first reading of a land-use amendment request so an affordable housing project in Hilo can move forward.

Women stole the show in West Hawai‘i Primary Elections Saturday night.

Hawai‘i voted Saturday — or several days before via mail-in balloting, the state’s first such endeavor — for statewide and county offices in the 2020 Primary Elections.

Big Island Mayor Harry Kim believes shopping with reusable bags over and again is an unnecessary health risk during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Norwegian Cruise Lines is docking its Hawai‘i vessel, along with the rest of its cruise ships, until at least April 10, 2020, due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Beyond Pesticides recently embarked on an 11-day educational tour of the Hawaiian Islands, making the Big Island their final stop last week.