Goodwill Hawaii sees rising demand, falling donations as holidays approach
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/11/29/hawaii-news/goodwill-hawaii-sees-rising-demand-falling-donations-as-holidays-approach/
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Volcano Watch — The legacy of the 1975 earthquake: 50 years of study at Kīlauea’s south flank
By Hawaiian Volcano Observatory November 28, 2025 The 1975 Kalapana earthquake brought big changes to lives of the people affected by the...
Partial overnight road closure in north Kona Utility pole replacement on Wednesday evening, Dec. 3
Partial overnight road closure in north Kona Utility pole replacement on Wednesday evening, Dec. 3 HILO, Nov. 28, 2025 – Hawaiian...
Aloha In Action: Communities Across Hawaiʻi Island Mobilize to Support 6,000 Families During Federal Shutdown
Aloha In Action: Communities Across Hawaiʻi Island Mobilize to Support 6,000 Families During Federal Shutdown HAWAIʻI ISLAND — November 2025...
HVO Update Fri., Nov. 28, 2025
KILAUEA (VNUM #332010) 19°25'16" N 155°17'13" W, Summit Elevation 4091 ft (1247 m) Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH Current Aviation...
Pastor’s Response To ‘Mom In Need’ During TikTok Experiment Goes Viral
Pastor’s Response To 'Mom In Need' During TikTok Experiment Goes Viral It all started with a TikTok experiment and...
Rep. Tina Grandinetti: Union Plaza ‘Hell Hole’ Reveals Systemic Issues Hawaiʻi needs a movement of organized tenants to take on the power imbalance of landlords.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/rep-tina-grandinetti-union-plaza-hell-hole-reveals-systemic-issues/
Beetles Attacked Wahiawā Botanical Garden Trees, Closing Trails A large swath of the central Oʻahu garden has been closed for many weeks due to a coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation. It is scheduled to reopen Thanksgiving weekend.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/beetles-attacked-wahiawa-botanical-garden-trees-closing-trails/
Lawsuit Claims ‘Negligence’ Led To Fatal Stabbing Of State Hospital Nurse Family claims administrators at Hawaiʻi’s only public psychiatric hospital failed to institute basic safety protocols to prevent the death of Justin Bautista by a patient.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/lawsuit-claims-negligence-fatal-stabbing-state-hospital-nurse/
Can Hawaiʻi Tackle Football’s Massive Carbon Footprint? Sports organizers, including the International Olympic Committee, are increasingly grappling with how to handle carbon emissions related to big events.
The game also had the kind of environmental implications that increasingly concern organizers of big-time sports events: a massive carbon footprint....
PGV seeks to boost power output by 5 megawatts
“Climate wise, it sure beats burning oil,” he said. “From a business perspective our contract will probably be the lowest...
Runnin’ with Rani: Fairmont Orchid’s Turkey Trot rallies Big Island support for The Food Basket
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/11/28/sports/runin-with-rani-fairmont-orchids-turkey-trot-rallies-big-island-support-for-the-food-basket/
Secret Santa Surprises Idaho Couple Who Adopted Four Siblings After Having Five of Their Own
Secret Santa Surprises Idaho Couple Who Adopted Four Siblings After Having Five of Their Own When Michelle and Von...
Hawaii Residents Have Been Complaining About Our High Cost Of Living For More Than 100 Years Old newspaper clippings show that the same conversations that were happening in the 1860s and 1960s about the struggle to make ends meet are still relevant today.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/05/hawaii-residents-have-been-complaining-about-our-high-cost-of-living-for-more-than-100-years/
What Makes Hawaiʻi Unique? The Answer Can Be Surprisingly Poetic Submissions to Civil Beat’s fifth Neighborhood Haiku project reveal fresh, albeit brief, insights into island life.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/what-makes-hawaii-unique-the-answer-can-be-surprisingly-poetic/
Honolulu Could Become The First US City Where Food Is A Human Right Among dozens of proposed amendments that the Charter Commission will consider putting on the ballot next fall is one underscoring a basic need: to eat.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/could-honolulu-become-first-us-city-where-food-is-human-right/
Hilo’s Basically Books turns 40, hosts celebration Saturday
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/11/27/hawaii-news/hilos-basically-books-turns-40-hosts-celebration-saturday/
OHA provides $6.1M to help those hurt by government shutdown
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/11/27/hawaii-news/oha-provides-6-1m-to-help-those-hurt-by-government-shutdown/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
TWO ʻALALĀ ADDED TO WILD FLOCK ON MAUI
TWO ʻALALĀ ADDED TO WILD FLOCK ON MAUI KĪPAHULU, Hawai‘i – The pilot project that released five ʻalalā (Hawaiian crows) into the forests...
HAWAIʻI BELT ROAD GOES TO SINGLE LANE AT HAKALAU STREAM BRIDGE FROM DEC. 3-7
HAWAIʻI BELT ROAD GOES TO SINGLE LANE AT HAKALAU STREAM BRIDGE FROM DEC. 3-7 HILO, Hawaiʻi — The Hawaiʻi...
