Southwest Airlines launches nonstop Hilo-to-Vegas route
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/20/hawaii-news/southwest-airlines-launches-nonstop-hilo-to-vegas-route/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
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Hawaiʻi County Awards $6 Million Through Homelessness and Housing Fund
Hawaiʻi County Awards $6 Million Through Homelessness and Housing Fund The County of Hawaiʻi Office of Housing & Community Development...
Hawaiʻi County & The Food Basket Award $500,000 in Grants to Strengthen Community Food Security
Hawaiʻi County & The Food Basket Award $500,000 in Grants to Strengthen Community Food Security The County of Hawai‘i Department...
PLAN FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO TRAFFIC EMERGENCY ZONE ON HAWAIʻI BELT ROAD
PLAN FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO TRAFFIC EMERGENCY ZONE ON HAWAIʻI BELT ROAD HILO, Hawaiʻi – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation...
High School Students Repair Cars — Then Give Them Away To Single Mothers In Need
High School Students Repair Cars — Then Give Them Away To Single Mothers In Need At a high school in...
Kirstin Downey: Food Shortages In Hawaiʻi? A Lesson From World War I A nearly forgotten piece of Hawaiʻi history can help us in the debate over how to keep our food supply flowing to the islands.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/kirstin-downey-food-shortages-in-hawai%ca%bbi-a-lesson-from-world-war-i/
Kaua‘i’s Robinson Family Quietly Pursues New Industrial Development The island’s largest private landowner is exploring how to turn the old Olokele sugar mill into the rural Westside’s first industrial park.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/kauais-robinson-family-quietly-pursues-new-industrial-development/
Should A State Worker Be Able To Lease Public Property Without Bids? An agency development director can now enter five-year leases for state-owned property in Kakaʻako at below-market rates without board approval or public notice.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/should-state-worker-lease-public-property-without-bids/
Meeting to discuss Hilo wilderness park draws large crowd
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/19/hawaii-news/meeting-to-discuss-hilo-wilderness-park-draws-large-crowd/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Volcano Watch — One year of Kīlauea’s episodic summit fountaining: highlighting the hazards
By Hawaiian Volcano Observatory December 18, 2025 On December 23, 2024, a unique eruption began in Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, with a style...
THE KOHALA CENTER: Employment/Opportunities/Events
Employment Hawaiʻi Food Hub Hui is hiring a managing director Hawaiʻi Food Hub Hui is hiring a part-time managing director...
He Arrested Her 10 Years Ago. Every Year, She Delivers Him A Thank-You Card
He Arrested Her 10 Years Ago. Every Year, She Delivers Him A Thank-You Card Ten years ago, a routine...
Hawaiʻi Wants To Bring Home The Bacon Again — Literally Pork production in the islands has dropped significantly in the past 20 years. The state is now taking calls for help from piggeries more seriously.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/hawai%ca%bbi-wants-to-bring-home-the-bacon-again-literally/
Kauaʻi Renters Are Fighting A Hawaiian Homesteads Condo Project The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is being sued over a relocation plan residents say is inadequate.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/kaua%ca%bbi-renters-are-fighting-a-hawaiian-homesteads-condo-project/
Hawaiʻi Building Fires Are On The Rise; Safety Inspections Aren’t Keeping Up Two fatal fires at the Wild Ginger Inn and the old Puʻueo Poi Factory in Hilo expose gaps in the state’s fire safety inspection system.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/building-fires-hawaii-rise-safety-inspections-arent/
HIDOE issues first statewide permanent bans following alleged assault of school administrator
HONOLULU — Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Superintendent Keith Hayashi issued a permanent trespass notice banning two individuals from all public school...
Help sought to find missing elderly Kona woman
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/18/hawaii-news/help-sought-to-find-missing-elderly-kona-woman/
‘I Will Always Remember This’: 75 Farmers Show Up To Finish Fallen Friend’s Final Harvest
'I Will Always Remember This': 75 Farmers Show Up To Finish Fallen Friend’s Final Harvest In rural North Dakota,...
The Diddy Combs Case That Entangled Maui Police Chief Has Been Dismissed Chief John Pelletier was one of several high-profile defendants who were accused of participating in a brutal sexual assault against a California woman.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/the-diddy-combs-case-that-entangled-maui-police-chief-has-been-dismissed/
Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Says Current Rules Are Enough To Prevent AI Abuses Despite lawyers citing fake, AI-generated citations in court documents, a new report finds existing rules provide adequate safeguards.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/hawaii-supreme-court-current-ai-rules-are-enough/
