Hilo News

A parade of county dignitaries and former leaders came to the West Hawaii Civic Center on Tuesday to witness the final chapter of a 35-year saga.

Thirty-nine attorneys who volunteer at the Third Circuit's Self-Help Center in the Hilo courthouse were recognized for their service at a Hawaii County Bar Association luncheon held June 14 at the Hilo Yacht Club.

The votes came in the face of opposition from about a dozen people, several who said raising money from the poor is especially distasteful at the same meeting where the council was to vote on 4 percent raises for council staff.

As the man attempted to swim back to shore, the shark bit him on his right thigh and calf causing non-life-threatening injuries.

Dozens of construction workers could lose their jobs on a bioenergy plant project in Pepeekeo following a decision in a labor dispute.

Police believe speed and alcohol were factors in Friday evenings fatal accident in Keaukaha.

Members of the University of Hawai`i at Hilos Team Poliahu gave first responders a demonstration of their application that won them the 2013 U.S. Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship Monday at County Civil Defense headquarters.

A 24-year old Hilo woman has been charged with eight property crimes, including three counts of burglary following last Wednesdays arrest on an outstanding bench warrant.

Hilo dentist Craig Fujioka is developing a $1.2 million, two-story retail center and office building at the corner of East Kawili and Hinano streets that is due to be completed by this fall.

Police have identified a 23-year-old man who was killed late Friday night when his car crossed the center line on Kalanianaole Avenue in Keaukaha and struck a utility pole and a rock wall as 23-year-old Joseph Nieves Jr. of Hilo.

Hawaii County firefighters, responding to the 8:45 p.m. alarm, found the sing-story wooden home fully engulfed in flames, with the fire spreading to nearby trees and brush.

Devan Makua Andaya May 4, 2013 Devan Makua Andaya, 26, of Waianae, a Hale Naau Pono employee, died in Honolulu.

HOPE Services Hawaii will expand its services to the Big Island with the addition of a clean and sober house for Department of Public Safety felony inmates making the transition back into the community.

In memory of the late Richard Crowe, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the Rotary Club of Hilo Bay held a breakfast tribute in late May at the Hilo Yacht Club.

A delegation from the Federated States of Micronesia Consulate General of Hawaii Office in Honolulu will visit Hilo Saturday to meet with FSM citizens at 4 p.m. in University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB-127.

The East Hawaii Cultural Council will sponsor the first-ever Hilo Open Studios Tour in November, and planning is under way.

Big Island police have charged a 24-year-old Hilo woman with eight property crimes stemming from reported burglaries during the first week of May. Through further investigation, police said officers determined that she was also responsible for or involved in break-ins of three homes in Panaewa Farm Lots, Upper Waiakea and Laupahoehoe, according to ... (more)

Our Picture This! assignment was multiple exposures, combining two or more images either in camera or later in software.

The project, new air-conditioning systems for Department of Environmental Management and Information Technology offices at the Puainako shopping center in Hilo, went to the sole bidder, Hawaii Sheetmetal & Mechanical Inc., whose owner, Brian Ninomoto, contributed $500 to Mayor Billy Kenoi's campaign.

Tyler Taylor is wanted in connection with a grand jury indictment related to a Feb. 6 robbery at Kolekole Beach Park, according to the Hawaii Police Department.