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HILO - A 20-year-old Laupahoehoe woman accused of possessing more than a pound of crystal methamphetamine pleaded not guilty yesterday and has been ordered to stand trial Oct.

More than 400 Big Island Hawaii Army National Guard and Pacific Army Reserve soldiers will be moving into new $46.5 million facilities near Hilo Airport in January 2011.

Some Pahoa residents aren't happy about a proposed new mall. Image: Alan Mcnarie It's already happened to thousands of small towns across the country: A highway bypass is built around a town, ostensibly to speed up traffic.

Firefighters pulled a 31-year-old man from a private swimming pool in Manoa yesterday evening.

HILO - A long-awaited environmental report on the world's largest optical/infrared telescope planned for the summit of Mauna Kea says the overall public benefit of the project outweighs any "unavoidable adverse impacts." If Hawaii were selected as the preferred site, and if the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved it, from 2011 to ...

Kenneth K. Otagaki, , 91, was born July 2, 1917 and died March 26. He was a self-made man, a student, a farm manager, a soldier during World War II, a college professor of animal science, the chairman of the Hawaii Board of Agriculture and a father who deeply loved his family.

A woman whose dog bit a 4-year-old girl at Kahala Beach can be sentenced to five days in prison or six months' probation but not both, according to a ruling by the state Intermediate Court of Appeals.

A bill making it easier for workers to form labor unions has passed Hawaii's Legislature.

The folks who grow those big, exotic mushrooms in Hamakua on the Big Island are introducing a new item: mushroom poke.

Given that it was set and shot in Honoka'a, it was only right that the new Japanese film 'Honoka'a Boy' should debut in that coastal Big Island town, where it got a standing-room-only premiere earlier this year ...

HILO - Roberto Pena Villanueva, a 39-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison on drug charges, Big Island Prosecuting Attorney Jay T. Kimura announced today.

SunFuels Hawaii, a company that received a lease in principle for 10,000 acres of state land in November, switched course and announced it would not seek a lease on any public lands.

From Friday through Jan. 29, Wailoa Art Center will host an exhibit, "Celebrating Hawaii's Youth in the Digital Age," co-sponsored by Keaau Youth Business Center, or KYBC, and Hawaii Community College with ...

Mobile Care lists January clinics Mobile Care Health Project provides affordable dental care to the low-income, uninsured and underinsured people of the Big Island.

It could be out of the frying pan and into the fire for Dylan Nonaka in the new year.

New Year's Eve fireworks rituals might get a little damp this year -- much like most of East Hawaii has been since Christmas.

More road work to affect traffic Intermittent lane closures are planned next week on Queen Kaahumanu Highway in both directions between Henry Street and Palani Road, as well as on Hawaii Belt Road near Honokaa, ...

As Hawaii celebrates 50 years of statehood, the 16th Annual Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival will pay tribute to retired politician and legal professional Nelson Doi on Saturday, Feb.

Hotel was closed for earthquake repairs, renovations by Carolyn Lucas West Hawaii Today clucas@westhawaiitoday.com Sunday, December 21, 2008 7:10 AM HST Swanee Rillanos' heart broke on Dec.

On an island laden with renewable energy resources, biomass energy -- natural materials burning and releasing heat -- is emerging as the next big thing.