The state has finally started dredging, but it shouldn’t have taken this long to restore a heartbeat of the community.

The Big Island police chief may have done too much damage to his relationship with the community.

Confusion has become the anti-vaxxer’s weapon of choice.

A Hawaiʻi County commission calls for a pause in the project until the state establishes rules regulating discharge of micro- and nanoplastics.

Resilience hubs like those pioneered on the Big Island are seen as a possible model for the rest of the state.

The state must spend millions to see if more electricity can be produced using heat deep under the earth. And it will have to convince residents to support such an effort.

Magnetic detection can only go so far in an island chain made of volcanic rock. Experts say other methods could be a game-changer.

A dishonest public worker and his partners slurped up millions of dollars by illegally manipulating a complex system of affordable housing credits.

Federal cuts threaten vital assistance programs like SNAP. Yet our leaders won’t act.

Open daily with “Big Market” days on Wednesday and Saturday, the open-air market has attracted locals and visitors for the past 37 years to downtown Hilo. The market’s website says it started with Richard “Mike” Rankin and four farmers selling produce and goods out of their vehicles in 1988.