Roughly 2,000 troops from the 25th Infantry Division came to Pohakuloa Training Area earlier this month to train with drones, snipers, mortars, helicopters and other live-fire artillery.

Mayor Mitch Roth has exercised the first veto of his term by rejecting a bill its sponsors say expands the number of eligible programs that could be implemented with county housing funds.

CORRECTION: Lt. Robert Pauole’s assignment within the Hawaii Police Department was misidentified in a previous version of this story. The Tribune-Herald regrets the error.

HONOLULU — A U.S. grand jury has indicted Honolulu’s former top prosecutor and four others, alleging that employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed Keith Kaneshiro with campaign donations in exchange for Kaneshiro’s prosecution of a former company employee.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday moved Hawaii County from the “Medium” to “High” COVID-19 community level.

Today marks an important milestone for the organizers of the Hawaii Island Portuguese Chamber of Commerce Cultural and Educational Center — they will be inking signatures on a construction contract for the long-envisioned facility at the corner of Komohana and Ponahawai streets in Hilo.

A trio of LGBTQ-related bills became law Thursday in an effort to shore up discrimination protections for sexual and gender minorities.

A bigger break in taxes for homeowners and kupuna is all but assured next year, following a unanimous committee vote Tuesday on a bill and assurances from the administration that it supports the measure.

A marine ecology researcher told a panel sponsored by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on Wednesday that deep-sea mining will have a negative impact on Pacific fisheries, including in waters near the Big Island.

The public said it wanted it, the administration said the county could afford it, but there will be no property tax relief this year, after the County Council on Wednesday couldn’t agree on either of two competing proposals.

All but two kinds of sunscreen will be banned on the Big Island under a bill passed Wednesday by the County Council.

Members of the Hilo Orchid Society are working to help Hawaii Island live up to its nickname as the Orchid Isle.

Public Works Director Ikaika Rodenhurst on Monday became the first top director in Mayor Mitch Roth’s Cabinet to leave county government.

A county attorney told a judge Tuesday that “it’s not the court’s place and it’s not the plaintiffs’ place” to decide whether Mayor Mitch Roth exercised his emergency powers in a lawful manner when he closed Waipi‘o Valley Road to all but residents, tenant farmers and emergency responders.

Kolekole Bridge needs one more month before its weight limit will return to 40 tons.

Gov. David Ige is urging those who haven’t been vaccinated and/or boosted for COVID -19 to do it now, while federally funded supplies of COVID vaccinations and treatments are available at no charge to consumers.

A 2016 permit controversy over a North Kona rock-crushing operation is coming back to the Leeward Planning Commission on Thursday, remanded there by the Hawaii Supreme Court in a December ruling.