KAILUA-KONA — A group of prospective thieves didn’t exactly find low-hanging fruit when attempting to pilfer a tangelo tree on private property in the Kona Heights area last week.

KAILUA-KONA — Representatives of AES Distributed Energy convened the first public meeting Tuesday night on a proposed solar-plus-storage project planned for an area roughly two miles southeast of Waikoloa Village.

KAILUA-KONA — After substantial delays, Hawaiian Ethos has begun growing medicinal cannabis for distribution from its Kona location. When card-carrying patients will have access to the company’s products, however, remains an open question.

KAILUA-KONA — This year marks a special anniversary for Veterans Day.

KAILUA-KONA — The West Hawaii delegation welcomed two new, yet familiar, faces to the fold following the results of Tuesday’s general election.

KAILUA-KONA — Capt. Jeff Baker was ferrying a party of 29 snorkelers and four crew members up the Kohala Coast a little after noon on Sunday when he looked south over his shoulder and witnessed a familiar ocean spray.

KAILUA-KONA — The state announced Thursday a concrete plan to import big ideas, and potentially big dollars, to West Hawaii through the vehicle of the global aquaculture industry.

KAILUA-KONA — Coffee season ended abruptly, some two months earlier than usual, for West Hawaii farmers. While causation is likely multi-faceted and open to debate, the consequences creep closer to certainties.

KAILUA-KONA — The Kona Historical Society on Monday announced a new addition to its Kona Coffee Living History Farm in Captain Cook, a 9-month-old Nightingale by the name of Shizu.

KAILUA-KONA — Sometimes a shift in perspective, an adjustment of approach, is all it takes to save a life.

KAILUA-KONA — The ocean is full of fish. And garbage.

KAILUA-KONA — More questions exist than answers for the special needs community in West Hawaii as its members attempt to battle barriers to social inclusion.

KAILUA-KONA — As an electrical engineer who made groundbreaking technological advancements in the field of medicine, Dr. Earl Bakken saved, prolonged and changed lives. As a prolific philanthropist, particularly on Hawaii Island, he improved them.

KAILUA-KONA — North Kona has been without four of its 14 water sources for months, but the Hawaii County Department of Water Supply believes it will revise that ratio in the coming days.

KAILUA-KONA — Brenda Carreira is set to become the latest in a line of administrators to try and repair Hawaii County’s beleaguered Mass Transit Agency since Mayor Harry Kim assumed office in 2016.

KAILUA-KONA — Tens of millions of dollars in federal disaster relief are headed Hawaii’s way in the wake of several natural disasters across the state, with potentially much more to come.

KAILUA-KONA — The last year has been unlike any other in the history of Hawaii Island tourism.