Hilo’s historic “Home of the Loco Moco” likely is going on an indefinite hiatus.

The National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration on Monday released a draft Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP) and an associated draft Environmental Assessment mandated by a 2000 law and ordered by a federal appeals judge in 2020 in response to a lawsuit by a community group.

April showers visited the Big Island, but they were far more plentiful in usually dry West Hawaii and in Ka‘u than they were in the windward areas of East Hawaii.

The Hawaii Fire Department will move operations this summer from its Central Fire Station in downtown Hilo to a midtown building on Kilauea Avenue so the 90-year-old station can undergo long-overdue repairs.

Family, friends and fellow students are mourning a 19-year-old University of Hawaii at Hilo student who — apparently accidentally — fell to her death last month from the balcony of her sixth-floor apartment in Hilo.

Economists at the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization are predicting a mild recession for the continental U.S. later this year, but think that Hawaii — while affected — will keep its economic head above recessionary water.

Representatives of the Hawaii Government Employees Association met Tuesday with Hawaii Fire Chief Kazuo Todd and other members of Mayor Mitch Roth’s administration to come up with a plan to rectify a severe shortage of fire dispatchers.

Grand opening for the brand-new UFC Gym BJ Penn in Hilo is set for 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

Over the past three years, foster parents Michelle and Aaron Omerod have welcomed 21 youths into their Hawaiian Paradise Park home.

Seldom has the first novel by an author from Hawaii been as eagerly anticipated as “Hula” by Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes.

Notable singer Melveen Leed wants a public apology from management of Prince Kuhio Plaza for cutting off her impromptu performance at the mall’s craft fair earlier this month during the Merrie Monarch Festival.

Court documents identified the three Kona patrol officers police say were endangered by a Kailua-Kona couple apprehended Thursday in Volcano after an early morning crime spree culminated in a cross-island manhunt.

Gov. Josh Green said Monday he’s dispatching Department of Land and Natural Resources Director Dawn Chang to the Big Island today “to work out a peaceful solution” between DLNR, owners and mangers of the Queen’s Marketplace, and feral cat advocates who feed the felines behind the Waikoloa Beach shopping center.

Lawyers for the family of an 11-year-old Boy Scout killed last August when an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle was accidentally discharged at a shooting range wrangled in court Friday with lawyers for the Boy Scouts of America and its Aloha Council.