Hawaii County News

A beach-goer was bitten shortly before 1 p.m. today by a tiger shark at a Kona Coast beach, a Department of Land and Natural Resources spokeswoman said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District, in coordination with the state Department of Health and various Hawaii County safety and law enforcement agencies, successfully investigated for ordnance June 17 at the Sandalwood Subdivision area along Kawaihae Road in Waimea.

The Hawaii County Fire Department is investigating a fire that destroyed a single-story wooden structure Saturday evening in Hilo.

Hawaii County firefighters this morning continue to combat a two-acre brush fire that was discovered in remote Waimanu Valley Sunday morning.

Hawaii County firefighters, responding to the 8:45 p.m. alarm, found the sing-story wooden home fully engulfed in flames, with the fire spreading to nearby trees and brush.

The Hawaii Small Business Development Center will present "How to Write Your Business Plan and Survival Tips" workshop from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. June 26 at North Hawaii Education and Research Center, 45-539 Plumeria St. in Honokaa.

Hawaii County residents are less comfortable calling the police to report a crime than they were four years ago, and many are ambivalent about the Hawaii County Police Department's ability to serve community needs, according to survey results the department released Thursday.

They searched high, they searched low and they searched in nearly every nook and cranny for the quarter-sized coqui frog Tuesday evening in Waimea.

State officials closed Hapuna Beach State Park after a diver found what could be unexploded ordnance to shore.

Hawaii County Police want to question Boaz D. Johnson in the strangulation death of Brittany-Jane Royal .

The Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council announces June is the time to apply for LIHEAP , a federal low-income home energy subsidy.

Five cases of syphilis were reported over the past five months, primarily in Hawaii County, the state Department of Health said.

Organizers say that this summer's Fourth of July fireworks display over Hilo Bay could be in jeopardy if they can't raise the $33,000 it's going to cost.

It's farewell to furloughs for Hawaii County employees, who spent their last furlough day Friday taking care of their weekly shopping at area grocery stores and soaking up the sun at the beaches, knowing that their salaries will increase next month, but their extra monthly day off is pau.

After three years of fundraising efforts, a group of street surfers and skating enthusiasts have gotten their own dream park on Hawaii County's list of capital projects.

Hawaii Island electricity customers may not have to pay a surcharge on their bills for the proposed $450 million Aina Koa Pono biodiesel refinery outside Pahala, but the county will continue to oppose the plant on other grounds, Energy Coordinator Will Rolston said Thursday.

A 45-year-old Kawaihae man died Wednesday from injuries he received when the car he was passenger in hit the rear of a boom truck on Queen Kaahumanu Highway in Kailua-Kona.

A home in Honokaa, valued at $275,00, was completely destroyed by fire caused by the accidental ignition of a propane gas tank Wednesday, Hawaii County fire officials said.

The Hawaii County Council will consider tightening its rules on public drinking today in response to an apparent loophole in the county code.

KONA A A judge has dismissed a portion of a lawsuit by two Hawaii County elections workers suing for defamation.