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Council debates staff raises

Updated: Jun 19, 2013 12:05am

By TOM CALLIS

Tribune-Herald staff writer

A proposal to give the County Council members’ appointed staff a 4 percent raise was tabled Tuesday after a lengthy discussion over step...

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Diego found guilty in hammer attack

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:19am

By 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

Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05am

By 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

Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05am

By 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

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 12:05am

By 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...

<p>Laura Shimabuku/Stephens Media</p><p>Aiki Kai o Kona Sensei Bill Stockton center helps students with their techniques at an Aikido class June 10 at Hale Halawai in Kona.</p>

Aikido with aloha in Kona

Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05am

By 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

Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05am

David 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

Updated: Jun 14, 2013 12:05am

Army 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

Updated: Jun 13, 2013 12:06am

By 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

Updated: Jun 13, 2013 10:28am

By 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

Updated: Jun 13, 2013 12:06am

By 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...