West Hawaii Today

KAILUA-KONA — A group will be out near Queen Kaahumanu Highway on Saturday morning, likely holding signs that show their displeasure with a precedent-setting ban on fishing at Kaupulehu Bay.

HILO — A charter amendment giving the County Council more control over department heads is moving forward.

KAILUA-KONA — A mobile van to bring spay-neuter services into rural areas, nearly $100,000 for more spay-neuter coupons, and the deletion of contract language that appears to encourage the killing of animals.

HILO — They sat empty for about three years, but initial registration numbers indicate the Queen Lili‘uokalani Trust’s two newly reopened Keahuolu Camping Program sites should be busy for awhile.

KAILUA-KONA — If you own a car, you might be at risk.

HILO — Mayor Billy Kenoi is adding 14 new positions to the county budget.

POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA — “It’s probably been one of the most challenging jobs I’ve ever had, and it’s probably been one of the most rewarding, as well.”

KAILUA-KONA — Eighteen months later, there is still no answer from the state Office of Information Practices on whether the Commission on Water Resource Management violated the Sunshine Law during Kona site visits in 2014.

KAILUA-KONA — M. Kanani Laubach has been appointed to the Family Court position recently vacated by Melvin Fujino’s appointment to Circuit Court.

WASHINGTON — El Nino’s super warm water has turned what had been one of the world’s most lush and isolated tropical marine reserve into a coral graveyard, federal scientists said Wednesday.