KAILUA-KONA — Following a three-year stretch of the worst bleaching events in recorded history that decimated roughly half of Hawaii’s corals, one species nearly extinct across the islands may be about to receive an improved chance at new life.

KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii Island Mayor Harry Kim was taken aback after he received a call Tuesday night from House Speaker Scott Saiki asking him to testify on a measure to increase Hawaii County’s share of the Transient Accommodations Tax by more than $12 million annually for at least the next dozen years.

KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii Island brew connoisseurs need not fly to Munich for Oktoberfest to find a festival celebrating a host of unique beers, ciders and meads.

KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii County’s plans to address homelessness remain malleable as officials continue to search for the most crucial element of any initiative — funding.

KAILUA-KONA — After a tumultuous 2017, Hawaii County Department of Water Supply has 11 of 13 deep wells up and running in North Kona.

KAILUA-KONA — For the tourism industry, coral reefs are an attraction. For fishermen, they’re a place of business. For a variety of marine species, they’re home.

Correction: A previous version of this story indicated Senate Bill 2111 was likely to go to a floor vote on May 6. The likely floor vote date is actually March 6. It is the policy of West Hawaii Today to correct any incorrect or misleading information as soon as it is brought to the attention of the paper.

KAILUA-KONA — Climate scientists at Stanford University project that in a worst-case scenario, rainfall across the Hawaiian Islands might decrease as much as 50 percent by the end of the century.

KAILUA-KONA — The food industry can be fickle, its purveyors’ profit margins precarious. As such, in the restaurant business, every cent really does count.

KAILUA-KONA — The arrival of a new player in the Kona coffee game has stirred more than milk and sugar into the region’s proverbial drink.

KAILUA-KONA — A controversial measure to institute across Hawaii a blanket ban on the manufacturing, distribution and use of chlorpyrifos — once the most widely utilized pesticide in the United States — continues to gain traction as it moves through the state House of Representatives.

KAILUA-KONA — A bill to fund two Big Island homeless villages died in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Tuesday after clearing its first two committees.

KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim and Finance Director Deanna Sako fielded questions and heard statements Tuesday night from West Hawaii residents sharing their voices on a proposal to raise the county’s general excise tax by one-half percent.

KAILUA-KONA — An African proverb contends raising a child “takes a village.” Hawaii County contends in a new bill moving through the state House of Representatives that the same concept must be applied to address the Big Island’s homelessness crisis.

KAILUA-KONA — Picking fruit on some West Hawaii farms is more than just precarious.