KAPAAU, Hawaii (Island News) -- Summer is just around the corner, and Hawaii County is looking for people who can help protect those headed into the water. The course is open to people ages 15 ...

Hawaii County’s new 17,127-square-foot Emergency Call Center in Hilo opened this week, housing dispatch operations for the Police and Fire departments. “After decades of planning, we now have ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Central Pacific Bank announced Monday that former Hawaii County mayor Mitch Roth is joining the bank as a senior vice president. Roth will be overseeing the company’s ...

HAWAII COUNTY, Hawaii (Island News) -- County of Hawaii Mayor Kimo Alameda gave his first State of the County address in which he highlighted progress such as prioritizing park facilities and ...

HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii County is looking for a contractor to operate a reusable foodware program. The county has opened a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a community wide program to collect ...

On Oahu, 1,356 people are licensed to carry handguns in public, compared to 425 on Hawaii island, 183 on Maui and 243 on Kauai. “Licensees are over-represented in Kauai County (11.0% of ...

A pair of Hawaii County Council members are hosting an informational briefing via Zoom about proposed legislation to establish a registration process for hosted transient vacation rentals ...

The Hawaii County Department of Parks & Recreation is offering a lifeguard certification course at Kohala Swimming Pool at Kamehameha Park in Kapa‘au. The American Red Cross Lifeguarding ...

Hawaii is still struggling to entice visitors back to the islands in numbers it had prior to the pandemic. Visitor arrivals dropped dramatically following the 2023 Maui wildfires. Now, 19 months ...

Gerhardt Konig, 46, has been charged with second-degree attempted murder. The doctor who is accused of trying to kill his wife on a Hawaii hiking trail pleaded not guilty on Monday during a court ...

It was one of Hawaii’s most popular hikes, attracting up to 70,000 people per year. Two years later, on Mother’s Day in 1999, a huge landslide slid down the steep valley wall, sending ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Lava began bubbling out of Hawaii’s most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilauea’s sporadic eruption resumed. The eruption restarted at midday when when molten rock ...