After a three-week trial, a jury of seven women and five men on Friday found 40-year-old Kalani Lono Kaohimaunu not guilty of second-degree murder for the Thanksgiving 2015 shotgun slaying of 39-year-old Keola Penovaroff in Hilo.

The prosecution’s closing arguments in the murder trial of Kalani Kaohimaunu went as expected — with Deputy Prosecutor Joseph Lee saying Venus Mitchell recognized Kaohimaunu as the man who fatally shot her boyfriend, Keola Penovaroff, on Thanksgiving Day 2015.

The maternal uncle of a man accused of a fatal shooting on Nov. 26, 2015, said Wednesday his nephew was at a Thanksgiving party the uncle hosted at his Kalapana home and couldn’t have been in Hilo when the shooting took place.

A 24-year-old Waimea woman was arrested Monday morning after an alleged robbery shortly after 9 a.m. at Malama Market in the Puna Kai Shopping Center in Pahoa.

The recent discontinuation of a program by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that tracked COVID-19 cases aboard cruise ships and reported findings to the public has no effect on how state agencies deal with the virus on cruise ships.

Federal court documents outlining charges against two Hilo attorneys and a Pahoa businessman claim the trio, and a county official who has already pleaded to wrongdoing, fraudulently obtained almost $11 million in land and affordable housing credits over a six-year-plus period — without building any affordable housing.

A tour helicopter official said he’s “perplexed” Gov. Ige signed Senate Bill 3272 into law after announcing he intended to veto the measure, which requires air tour companies to report various details about each flight.

More than a year after serving as an emergency shelter for the homeless during the coronavirus epidemic, 31 of 32 micro-housing units once dubbed Hale Hanakahi are being moved from the parking lot at the NAS Pool in Hilo.

A spike in seismic activity detected last weekend beneath Kama‘ehuakanaloa seamount — an undersea volcano south of Hawaii Island formerly known as Lo‘ihi — had subsided as of Thursday.

The Ookala Post Office is closing at the end of business on July 31, and dozens of seniors who live in the former plantation town on the Hamakua Coast will now have to go to Paauilo to get their mail.

The girlfriend of a man shot to death on Thanksgiving 2015 testified in court Monday she saw the shooting occur.

Hawaii now has steeper fines for motorists caught who use cellphones or other mobile electronic devices while driving.