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<p>Dave Schaefer, a volunteer, helps install blinds on Monday at the new American Cancer Society’s Resource Center Wig Closet in Tiana’s Avon & Wigs on Luhia Street in Kailua-Kona. (Laura Shimabuku/Special to West Hawaii Today)</p>

Center offers new hair, outlook to cancer patients

Updated: May 20, 2013 9:07pm

When 44-year-old Waimea resident Rose Bateman discovered a lump in her breast, this self-described “happy-go-lucky person” wasn’t worried. She dealt with the situation in a very matter-of-fact way...

A vital necessity

Updated: May 20, 2013 8:49am

Hawaii Island is home to most of the 192 bed and breakfasts legally operating in the state, according to Hawaii Tourism Authority’s 2012 Visitor Plant Inventory data.

With 88 properties...

Health fair offers free tests, advice to seniors

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

Larry Schuldt enthusiastically raced around a waiting area Sunday inside North Hawaii Community Hospital. Swiftly, but mindfully, the 64-year-old Waikoloa resident circled the small orange cone...

<p>A false killer whale carrying an ono off the Kona coast. False killer whales cooperatively hunt and share their prey – this individual is from the small resident population that lives among the main Hawaiian Islands. (Daniel L. Webster/Special to West Hawaii Today)</p>

Research continues on Hawaii’s lesser-known cetaceans

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

In Hawaii’s crystalline waters, some cetaceans get all the attention — usually the charismatic humpback whales and spinner dolphins known for their stunning displays of acrobatics.

However,...

<p>San Antonio guard Tony Parker shoots as Memphis swingman Tony Allen, right, tries to defend during the Spurs’ 105-83 win over the Grizzlies in Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference finals Sunday in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)</p>

San Antonio routs Memphis in West finals opener

Updated: May 20, 2013 9:03am

SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs opened the Western Conference finals resembling the past champions who’ve been there so many times before.

The Memphis Grizzlies looked like the first-...

GPS system can accurately predict post-quake tsunami, study finds

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement.

None was linked to that nation’s...

Huskies blank Wahine

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

Washington’s pitching silenced the University of Hawaii softball team’s bats, again.

Bryana Walker fired a no-hitter and the Huskies ousted the Rainbow Wahine from the NCAA regionals with an...

Medicaid opposition underscores states’ health-care disparities

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many states to expanding Medicaid next year under the national health-care law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation’s poorest residents...

Sandy’s Legacy May Include Better Hurricane Forecasting

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

WASHINGTON — With hurricane season less than two weeks away, and a very active season predicted by meteorologists, all thoughts are on what happened last year, when a tropical cyclone named Sandy...

Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic

Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05am

WASHINGTON — Five months into President Barack Obama’s second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by...