Traffic deaths down in 2019

Despite a deadly November in which seven people died on Big Island roads, official traffic fatalities in Hawaii County were significantly down in 2019 from the previous year.

The Hawaii County Council will vote next week whether to approve a state and federal study of potential modifications to the Hilo Bay breakwater.

Charges against a retired Hawaii Police Department captain accused of tipping off arcade owners prior to a gambling raid have been dropped.

Although the protesters at Maunakea Access Road have physically changed their position, their philosophical position remains the same as in July.

The Big Island’s shortage of affordable housing is reaching the crisis stage, says a County Council member sponsoring a nonbinding resolution pushing for the creation of an affordable housing fund.

A ban on the county’s use of herbicides isn’t a sure thing quite yet.

The family of a Hilo soldier, whose long-lost World War II dog tag was found on a French battlefield, has been located.

KAWAIHAE — Kawaihae Harbor-North is closed indefinitely following damage caused by high surf that battered west-facing shores over the New Year’s holiday.

KAILUA-KONA — A South Kona man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after his flight from police earlier this year resulted in a traffic crash that killed a 22-year-old woman in Ohio.

KAILUA-KONA — Proceedings have resumed in the case of two Puna women accused of murder in the 2018 death of a 6-year-old boy at a Kealakehe apartment complex.

Honua Ola Bioenergy will have to update a traffic assessment submitted for the project in March 2011 before the power plant under construction in Pepeekeo can deliver logs to its facility.

Extensive accessibility renovations are scheduled for the Pana‘ewa Recreational Complex this year, but several users of the attached Pana‘ewa Equestrian Center are pushing back against some of the proposed changes.

Hawaii Electric Light Co. is seeking approval of an amended power purchase agreement with Puna Geothermal Venture, according to documents filed Tuesday with the state Public Utilities Commission.