Health care collapse

HILO — Legislation tackling health-care costs, homelessness and cesspools are among six priorities identified by Mayor Harry Kim as the four county mayors head to Honolulu Wednesday to address legislative money committees.

HILO — Four generations of family of a 71-year-old man who was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death with his own cane by a naked intruder sat in court Friday, some openly sobbing, some cursing softly at the suspect as he was led into and out of the courtroom.

KAILUA-KONA — The undermining of the seawall on Alii Drive at Oneo bay where the latest sinkhole appears has been a problem for over a decade.

HILO — Two weeks after Thirty Meter Telescope opponents relinquished control of the Maunakea Access Road, both sides are wondering what the next moves will be.

KAILUA-KONA — The state is now taking the lead on permitting commercial surf schools at Kahaluu Bay, a recently filed report to the state Legislature shows.

HILO — A Hawaii County Council committee voted in support of an audit that would be the first step in rewriting two chapters of the county code.

KAILUA-KONA — Macy’s at Kings’ Shops is shuttering its doors at month’s end.

HILO — It’s a new year, but closures of some of the county’s solid waste facilities continue to plague the Department of Environmental Management.

HILO — A 30-year-old man police believe stabbed an elderly man to death with a cane Tuesday evening in upper Puna is a former Army sergeant from Northern California.

HILO — After almost six hours of testimony and debate Wednesday, the County Council came up one vote short of overriding Mayor Harry Kim’s veto of a bill banning the use of herbicides by county workers.

KAILUA-KONA — The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands this year plans to award handful of vacant lots and start construction on more than a hundred homes for beneficiaries at the Villages of Laiopua in Kealakehe.

The Hawaii County Council voted today not to override Mayor Harry Kim’s veto of Bill 101.