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HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — Emma and Austin Sneller of Utah and their 9-month-old daughter Elsie were among the thousands of visitors and locals that contributed to a tourism spike at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park as lava fountaining marked the resumption of a new eruptive episode at Kilauea’s summit.

Young Brothers LLC on Tuesday named Steen Christensen president, succeeding Frank Almaraz, who joined Young brothers as interim president last July.

An amended version of a bill that would allow residential development in Hawaii County’s industrial-commercial mixed-use zoning districts has been postponed until the Feb. 4 County Council meeting for possible further amendment.

BJ Penn has filed a motion asking Hilo Circuit Judge Peter Kubota to recuse himself from hearing any of Penn’s domestic-abuse related cases.

Hawaii voters would be asked in November whether to pass a constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults under a bill that state Rep. David Tarnas plans to introduce this month.

The Big Island experienced an acutely arid 2025.

Two Hawaii Police Department officers were arrested Tuesday afternoon following their indictment by a Hilo grand jury for allegedly violating an arrestee’s constitutional protections during a search of the individual’s belongings.

Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, doctoral student Kristen Gaines opens up a refrigerator full of beetle larvae, hoping to find them dead.

An expanding pipeline of Native Hawaiian homestead development has led to a bottleneck serving lower-­income households trying to buy new homes using federally funded low-interest loans.

A resolution urging a ban on the taking of ornamental fish for aquariums received a 9-0 vote Tuesday by the County Council’s Committee on Government Operations and External Affairs, which forwarded the measure to the full council with a positive recommendation.