Pahala News

Washing plants, shielding them from acid rain and reducing the acidity of irrigation water will minimize vog crop damage, two University of Hawaii scientists have found.

After eight years of developing it, Butch Loper is pretty satisfied with how his 20-acre property in Wood Valley has turned out.

A minor earthquake rattled portions of the Big Island early this morning. The quake, which was assigned a preliminary magnitude of 2.7 by the United States Geological Survey, occurred at 1:53 a.m. about 2 miles ...

At a ceremony today at the Kona Outdoor Circle Education Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson and the Hawaii Department of Health honored the County with the 2008 Hawaii ...

HILO State officials will visit six Big Island schools next week to see how well they're prepared to deal with volcanic emissions.

Members of the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Division will visit six Big Island schools next week to see how well they're prepared to deal with volcanic emissions.

Ocean View structure fire under investigation Hawaiian Ocean View and Pahala firefighters responded to a structure fire at Catamaran at Island Boulevard early Thursday morning.

HCEOC sets Aug. 21 surplus food distribution The Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council has scheduled the distribution of federal surplus green beans, corn, peanut butter, tomatoes and turkey ham on ...

Recent activity at the Kilauea volcano has resulted in some temporary increased levels of sulfur dioxide in the districts of Kau and Puna.

Ka'u horticulturist Ted Seaman holds leaves from his crop of angel trumpets, a small landscape tree that normally produces dark green leaves.

The federal government on Wednesday approved a disaster declaration to cover the losses Big Island farmers have suffered as a result of vog, or volcanic smog, from Kilauea.

Bronson Avenue might not have been at Pahoehoe Beach Park last Thursday, if someone hadn't noticed a leak.

Editor's note: The police log is a weekly feature of West Hawaii Today and is compiled using Hawaii County Police Department records of individuals who are arrested and charged.

Kilauea's volcanic emissions are causing financial losses for Big Island farmers, who have seen crops completely wiped out due to the ongoing vog.

A 41-year-old Kailua-Kona man died Sunday from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash on Hawaii Belt Road , .3 miles north of the 49-mile marker, north of Pahala in the Ka'u District, police said today.

A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report was released today on an Island Hoppers Cessna tour airplane that disappeared in a dense Big Island rain forest on June 17 with the pilot and two ...

Box jellyfish stung about 200 people on the south shore yesterday, the second day of a monthly jellyfish influx, and a city spokesman warned beachgoers that the influx may continue today.

The National Transportation Safety Board removed the wreckage of a Cessna 172 from a heavily forested area on the Big Island Friday morning.

A nearly week-long search suddenly ends, after the wreckage of a missing Big Island plane is finally found.

The Island Hoppers tour flight had been missing since it failed to return from a three-hour aerial tour of the Big Island on Tuesday.