More Local News ↓
Diego found guilty in hammer attack
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:19amBy JOHN BURNETT
Tribune-Herald staff writer
A former mortician has been convicted of a near-fatal hammer attack on a downtown Hilo coin merchant exactly two years after the beating...
County contract raises eyebrows
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05amBy NANCY COOK LAUER
Stephens Media
A county project estimated to cost $50,000 ballooned to $146,913, leaving one would-be bidder crying foul.
The project, new air-conditioning...
Future of Puna circus in limbo
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05amBy TOM CALLIS
Tribune-Herald staff writer
The future of Hawaii’s Volcano Circus remains to be determined six months after the Windward Planning Commission last tabled the matter of...
Kona July Fourth event in need of more funds
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 12:05amBy CHELSEA JENSEN
Stephens Media
There’s less than a month remaining until Independence Day festivities kick off in Kailua-Kona, culminating with a community parade and fireworks...
Aikido with aloha in Kona
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05amBy CAROLYN LUCAS-ZENK
Stephens Media
For a quarter of a century, Kona couple Sharon Gilbert and Bill Stockton have been local ambassadors of aikido — a beautiful, flowing, peaceful...
Obituaries for June 14
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05amDavid Christopher Arbon, 45, of South Kohala died June 5 at Kona Community Hospital. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was a computer systems technician for Kohala Ranch Water Company, owner of D.A...
Bow hunting at PTA this weekend
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05amArmy officials are opening several training areas for bow hunting at Pohakuloa Training Area on Saturday and Sunday from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Training Areas 1-4 and 10-11 will be open for bow...
Officials warn of syphilis outbreak
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 13, 2013 12:06amBy NANCY COOK LAUER
Stephens Media
The discovery of five syphilis cases in the past five months in West Hawaii — more than the past five years on Hawaii Island combined — has the state...
Family rescued from ocean in Pololu Valley
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 13, 2013 10:28amBy CHELSEA JENSEN
Stephens Media
A North Carolina family of five has an off-duty firefighter, aware beachgoers and well-placed rescue tubes to thank for their lives following a...
Isle team to compete in Russia
Local News Comments Updated: Jun 13, 2013 12:06amBy COLIN M. STEWART
Tribune-Herald staff writer
This summer is shaping up to be a hectic one for a group of University of Hawaii at Hilo computer science students.
In one fell...
