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Program trains youth to be isle’s caretakers
Local News Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 10:55amBy COLIN M. STEWART
Tribune-Herald staff writer
Like enormous lighthouses, Hawaii Island’s parks serve as beacons, calling out to vacationers and adventure seekers across the globe....
Compare your small business with others
Local News Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 12:05amBy KURT CORBIN
When you look at the number and mix of businesses in communities across the state or country, you will observe that there are many similarities from town to town. Population,...
Director says county money went for food but required reports nowhere to be seen
Local News Comments Updated: May 12, 2013 12:05amBy NANCY COOK LAUER
Stephens Media
When the Hawaii County Council last year took the unprecedented step of dipping into the county’s disaster fund to give the nonprofit Food Basket Inc...
Highway wreck disrupts protest
Local News Comments Updated: May 12, 2013 12:05amBy CHELSEA JENSEN
Stephens Media
An illegal U-turn on Queen Kaahumanu Highway Saturday morning spurred a two-car crash in front the Kohanaiki Shores development just yards from where...
Pedestrian struck, killed in Glenwood
Local News Comments Updated: May 12, 2013 12:05amA pedestrian was killed Friday night when he was struck by a water truck on Volcano Highway (Highway 11) near the 20-mile marker in Glenwood.
Police have not identified the man or the truck’...
Waimea Elementary students pay tribute for Mother’s Day
Local News Comments Updated: May 12, 2013 12:05amBy CAROLYN LUCAS-ZENK
Stephens Media
Mom. It’s a simple, three-letter word that can evoke so much emotion, memory and comfort.
Today is Mother’s Day, a time to cherish and...
Program unites at-risk youth with shelter dogs
Local News Comments Updated: May 12, 2013 12:05amBy ERIN MILLER
Stephens Media
Bryson Kahaleua tried three times to get Manini, the brindle dog with which he was working Friday morning at the Hawaii Island Humane Society, to run up a...
Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record
Local News Comments Updated: May 11, 2013 12:06amBy SETH BORENSTEIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before...
Public input sought on proposed budget
Local News Comments Updated: May 11, 2013 12:06amBy NANCY COOK LAUER
Stephens Media
The public will get its first chance Monday to weigh in on Mayor Billy Kenoi’s proposed 2013-14 budget and on Tuesday will be able to comment on...
Groundbreaking slated for campus
Local News Comments Updated: May 11, 2013 12:06amBy CHELSEA JENSEN
Stephens Media
It’s official: The long-promised Hawaii Community College at Palamanui will break ground May 28.
The groundbreaking is slated for noon at the...
