High grocery prices, low pay and a lack of options have caused many Hawaii Island veterans to face food insecurity.

Efforts in the state Legislature to forestall an impending explosion of property insurance costs in lower Puna appear to have largely petered out.

Hilo residents’ concerns about the possibility that a government-sanctioned homeless camp could be created near Wailoa River State Recreation Area are premature, Hawaii County and state officials said last week.

On Friday, May 1, 1987, Lynn Ebisuzaki, a 26-year-old Sunday school teacher, excused herself from her boyfriend’s home on the 500 block of Kanoelehua Avenue in Hilo at about 9:15 p.m. to take a shower.

State education officials say that between a new round of possible state budget cuts on top of a looming “federal fiscal cliff,” they are bracing for a triple punch to the funding of Hawaii’s public school system.

Hawaii astronomers were over the moon Thursday after a private commercial company’s spacecraft made the first successful American moon landing in more than 50 years.

Visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are encouraged to help develop a plan to reduce traffic congestion within the popular destination.

A homeless encampment at the Kona Aquatics Center was removed Thursday morning with police and Parks and Recreation staff performing park rules enforcement.

A bill that would allow law enforcers and firefighters to search the premises of fireworks licensees without a warrant is making its way through the state House of Representatives.