Papa’aloa Residents Want New Gym

Community members continue to push for a new gym in Papa‘aloa, with surprising results.

Saturday morning was full of sweat and smiles as athletes competed in Hawaii’s first Special Olympics since 2019.

State and county officials broke ground Friday on the first phase of a subsistence agricultural development in Honomu.

Home sales on the Big Island are still extremely vigorous, but clouds are forming on the horizon for prospective local buyers.

Hawaii Island business groups, facing steep increases in property values, are clamoring for relief from taxes set forth in a record high $689.9 million budget proposed by Mayor Mitch Roth.

The windward side of the Big Island has experienced some April showers, but through March, not a single official rain gauge measured average rainfall.

The U.S. Army is requesting public feedback on a draft environmental impact statement that will determine whether part of the Pohakuloa Training Area will remain under Army management.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was busier than usual late last month thanks to the end of the Safe Travels program and an influx of spring break vacationers from the mainland.

A 21-year-old Kona man indicted in 2019 for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor on the grounds of a South Kona public school and subsequently indicted in connection with two later, unrelated sex assaults remains in custody at the Hawaii State Hospital awaiting another competency hearing.

U.S. Coast Guard officials Thursday identified the victim of a fatal boating incident Monday evening as a 54-year-old Kailua-Kona woman.

Some 900 new timeshares are expected to be popping up at the Waikoloa Resort starting within five years, following County Council votes Wednesday approving rezoning that will do away with nine holes of golf and add affordable housing for workers.