On Friday, May 1, 1987, Lynn Ebisuzaki, a 26-year-old Sunday school teacher, excused herself from her boyfriend’s home on the 500 block of Kanoelehua Avenue in Hilo at about 9:15 p.m. to take a shower.

The House Committee on Finance on Thursday passed an appropriations bill to cover payments for claims against the state, its officers and employees.

A bill that would allow law enforcers and firefighters to search the premises of fireworks licensees without a warrant is making its way through the state House of Representatives.

The boyfriend of a 29-year-old Keaau woman who drowned early Sunday morning after slipping and falling into the ocean off a sea cliff in Hawaiian Paradise Park alleges she died because of an inadequate response by police and fire rescuers.

A miniature horse from Waimea that visits patients at Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital could become the nonprofit Pet Partners’ “Pet of the Year.”

Hundreds paid their final respects late last week to a 16-year-old Hilo High School junior who died in January from injuries he received after being struck as a pedestrian by an on-duty Hawaii Police Department officer at the wheel of a blue-and-white police cruiser.

A Honokaa roofing contractor sustained life-threatening injuries last week in a freak accident in Southern California.

A 56-year-old Ka‘u man once charged as being an accomplice to the 2009 shooting death of a 21-year-old rodeo champion was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the murder.

An bill that would legalize the recreational use of cannabis by adults 21 and over cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday.

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A 44-year-old Hilo man will spend life in prison — with the possibility of parole — for stabbing a woman to death in her Hilo apartment on Halloween in 2020.

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources says it expects to complete the demolition of the former Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Hotel by November.

A bill that would legalize adult-use recreational marijuana in Hawaii on Jan. 1, 2026, will receive a committee hearing this week.

Two Hawaii Police Department officers were fired in 2023, and nine — including one of the terminated officers — received suspensions ranging from one to 12 days.

Companion bills in the state Legislature that appropriate money to settle claims against the state and its employees contain $1.25 million for a Hilo woman who was sexually assaulted when she was a teenager on a Hilo beach by a Department of Land and Natural Resources enforcement officer.

In terms of precipitation, the Big Island in January was a tale of two halves.