Stephanie Salmons

Tiffany Martinez, an intensive care unit nurse at Hilo Medical Center, has been working with COVID-19 patients since the onset of the pandemic 17 months ago.

Coronavirus cases are climbing on school campuses across the state.

Crews responsible for the much-maligned Kalanianaole Avenue improvement project are back on the job.

Employees at Hilo Medical Center and other Hawaii Health Systems Corp. facilities in East Hawaii have until early September to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly testing.

County parks and recreational facilities will remain open under a new emergency rule approved this week, county leaders announced Friday, but with additional restrictions.

Hilo Medical Center is operating well beyond capacity as the number of COVID-19 patients there continues a steady climb upward.

Faculty at the University of Hawaii at Hilo last month were given the option to temporarily move from in-person classes to a hybrid model due to the surge of COVID-19 cases.

It will be several years before the state Department of Transportation starts work on a project that would add an “acceleration lane” at the intersection of Highway 130 and Shower Drive in Puna.

A family with ties to the Big Island hopes to support sustainable agriculture with a new dairy operation in Ookala.

A Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant was “understandably shaken up” but is doing well following an alleged assault by a passenger Thursday aboard a plane bound for the Big Island, President and CEO Peter Ingram said in a memo to employees.