Volcano News

It makes sense to imagine that the first Christmas in Hawaii was observed with a luau, hula performances and a service led by the missionaries.

Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, today announced that the U.S. Department of the Interior has awarded the state $420,000 in grant funding to modernize the monitoring of Hawaii's volcanic sites.

This year the Volcano Art Center , a gallery and educational institution in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawai`i , hosts its 10th Annual Invitational Wreath Exhibit .

Big Island police have opened a negligent homicide investigation in connection with a vehicle-pedestrian crash Tuesday night in the Glenwood area of Puna on Highway 11 at the 20-mile marker.

Kilauea's ongoing eruption -- 27 years in January -- will be highlighted at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting Dec.

Big Island police are asking for help in identifying a man who robbed a pharmacy off Kawaihae Road in Waimea on Nov.

Thirty-five years ago, inspired by its dramatic surroundings, Volcano Art Center founders began 'to promote, develop and perpetuate the artistic and cultural heritage of Hawai'i's people and environment.' And so began the center's mission to bring visual, literary and performing arts to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

It's easy to give one-of-a-kind, handmade, fine-art gifts, with all the art-related sales around town.

Hawai'i Police Department Criminal Investigations Section, Area I Captain Randall Medeiros Phone: 961-2251 November 20, 2009 Report No.

Once again, the children of Hawaii are being short-changed. But this time it is potentially endangering them in their own homes.

Big Island police are asking for the public's help in connection with the investigation of an armed robbery last week in Volcano.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for the Big Island until 6:15 PM Thursday.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for the Big Island and Maui and extended a flash flood watch for all islands and a high surf warning until tomorrow afternoon.

HILO - East Hawaii clients of a mental health program that is being terminated yesterday pleaded with an advisory council to understand their plight.

Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students on its Web site for months, school officials say.

Two areas have been nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii Natural Area Reserves System : 'Ilio Point on Moloka'i and a parcel next to the existing Kahauale'a Natural Area Reserve on Hawai'i. Please attend the public hearings next week and/or submit written testimony in support of these additions.

Creeping lava is no longer threatening a public viewing area near Kalapana, but officials said there's still plenty of activity from the Kilauea eruption, now in its 27th year.

VOLCANO >> Civil Defense officials on the Big Island believe the trailhead of the Kalapana viewing area is safe from a tongue of lava from erupting Kilauea volcano.

KEAUKAHA, Hawaii - More than a century after Father Damien died among his brethren on a forgotten peninsula on Moloka'i, the memory of his sacrifice remains strong.

Hawaiian legend says Pele, the volcano goddess, set fire to her sister Hiiaka's ohia forest and killed her lover in a jealous rage.