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Hawaiian Electric warns of more rolling outages

HILO, Hawai‘i — Hawaiian Electric on Monday again asked customers to conserve power to avoid the need for additional rolling outages after more than 21,000…

Cockfighting bill dies in Senate

HILO, Hawai‘i — A controversial state measure that would crack down on people raising chickens for cockfighting is dead. While cockfighting already is illegal in…

Hilo teacher surprised with $25K Milken award

HILO, Hawaii — A math teacher at Waiakea High School on Tuesday won a $25,000 national Milken Educator Award. Milken Educator Awards founder Lowell Milken…

Bees causing a buzz on Big Island

HILO, Hawai‘i —The Big Island will be abuzz on Tuesday, April 2, about a proposal to allow bees to be kept on residential and other…

U.S. military drains fuel from tank facility

HONOLULU — The U.S. military said it’s finished draining millions of gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex in Hawai‘i that poisoned 6,000…