New Hawaiian Airlines CEO Joe Sprague told Neighbor Island reporters in a virtual press conference Wednesday that Alaska Airlines’ $1.9 billion acquisition of Hawaiian will provide “a tremendous boost to the utility that our airline will be able to deliver.”

Hawaii Radiologic Associates has canceled all patient appointments for medical imaging services since late August due to what it called “a security incident that affected some of our systems.”

The associate director of the Hawaii Innocence Project told the state Supreme Court on Thursday that prosecutors — who provided information that helped overturn the convictions of Albert “Ian” and Shawn Schweitzer in the Christmas Eve 1991 abduction, rape and murder of Dana Ireland in Puna — now appear to be impeding the brothers’ quest to be compensated for being wrongly imprisoned.

Hawaii County announced Tuesday it’s ready to reconstruct a 3.64-mile section of Highway 137 in lower Puna, between the makai end of Pohoiki Road and the intersection of Highway 132 — also known as “Four Corners.”

A long-awaited, federally mandated wastewater treatment plant with sewer collection for Naalehu took a step forward with the publication Sunday of a draft environmental assessment.

Hawaii County has purchased two 40-foot refrigerated containers and is exploring the possibility of an emergency proclamation to start using them as a temporary storage facility for the bodies of decedents whose deaths occurred somewhere other than Hilo Benioff Medical Center.

A Honokaa power plant that provides about a third of the electrical power for the island is planning an upgrade.

The long-delayed opening of the Hawaii County Emergency Call Center has been pushed back once again because the facility on July 29 failed a building inspection.

Hilo is the hula capital of Hawaii, therefore the world — but outside of Merrie Monarch Festival week, hula that appeals to locals as well as visitors is seldom a part of Hilo’s entertainment scene.

A well-known house in Ka‘u that was once a bed-and-breakfast sustained major flood damage as Tropical Storm Hone passed to the south of the Big Island over the weekend.