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Hawaii Wood Guild Exhibit: Opening Reception, January 12

The Hawaii Wood Guild’s 33rd Masters Invitational Annual Exhibit opens January 12 with a reception from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the Issacs Art Center in Waimea. The show runs through February 23, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Eighteen guild members created the 52 pieces on display. HPA will receive […]

Putting’ the howl in Halloween

Humane Society Holds Annual Howl’ween Dog Walk!

For the entire article go to: http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/10/28/hawaii-news/puttin-the-howl-in-halloween-humane-society-holds-annual-howlween-dog-walk/

Kilauea alert level lowered

By TOM CALLIS Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Saturday, October 6, 2018, 12:05 a.m.

A large black sand beach remains at Pohoiki. The sand continues to block access to the boat ramp, which is just to the right of the center of the photo. The thick fissure 8 lava flows can be seen in the […]

Update on Kilauea and when areas will be open

‘Thank you to Regina Stuard

An Absence of Lava

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/08/31/hawaii-news/an-absence-of-lava/

No lava is seen in fissure 8 in Leilani Estates in this photo taken Monday. (USGS/Courtesy photo)

By Nature Made

HILO — Lava was no longer oozing into the ocean or sitting inside fissure 8 during an overflight Wednesday morning, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

That appears to mark the first […]

Kiluea Has Quieted Down

 

 

Fissure has quieted down.

After speaking a number of folks on the Kona Coast, the vog has improved immensely, skies are blue and air is clearer.

 

Thanks to Alex Gersznowicz

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Queen Kaahumanu Highway dedicated

KAILUA-KONA — As local officials celebrated the dedication of the newly widened stretch of Queen Kaahumanu Highway, the sound of horns from passing cars punctuated the speeches and remarks, notes of thanks — or at least, relief — for the completion of a project years in the making.

Three years after breaking ground and […]

Nightmare Ends: Man suspected of fatally shooting officer found, killed by police

A sergeant with the Hawaii Police Department’s Special Response Team, who reportedly was injured in a shootout at South Point, is carried toward Hilo Medical Center after being medivaced late Friday afternoon. (HOLLYN JOHNSON/Hawaii Tribune-Herald)SOUTH POINT — A days-long, islandwide manhunt culminated Friday in South Point when the Hawaii Police Department’s Special Response Team […]

Fixing Hawaii Island: Spay & Neuter Waggin’ set to arrive July 13

An enormous MAHALO from Barbara and Rob Kildow to all of you who generously joined them in making this Big Fix dream come true.

Whitney and John Sickels stand with the new Hawaii Island Humane Society Spay & Neuter Waggin’. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Special to West Hawaii Today)

KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii Island Humane Society […]

$95M Kailua-Kona development project set for completion in 2020

By Max Dible West Hawaii Today mdible@westhawaiitoday.com | Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 12:05 a.m.

 

KAILUA-KONA — The earth moved in Kailua Village Monday, as dignitaries and business representatives scooped the first shovel fulls of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for Niumalu Marketplace, a new commercial development in the heart of Kailua-Kona.

Safeway […]

Hawaiians Blame Misunderstanding of Volcano and ‘Doomsday’ Headlines for Big Drop in Tourism

Morgan Suzuki, the PR director of the Four Seasons Hualalai on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been fielding a lot of calls from tourists about the Kilauea volcano lately. They want to know: What are the chances of being hit lava? Can they be suffocated by toxic vog (volcanic smog)?

The Four Seasons is located near […]

Volcano Response by member Kate Bell

http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-costs-tourism-industry-millions-483304571.html

 

While the volcano has delivered extra vog to the Kona side, the economic destruction caused by the current eruption affects the whole island. Not only have some Kalapana residents lost everything, but hundreds of island residents have permanently lost their jobs at farms, businesses and hospitality industries that are collapsing or already eradicated. […]

Volcano, Volcano, Volcano

I have just returned to Kona after two weeks touring Japan and S. Korea. Where ever I went when folks asked us where we were from, and we said Hawaii, they immediately asked about the Volcano. Those of us who have homes on the Big Island are constantly being contacted by friends, relatives and even […]

More air shots of Volcanic Eruption

Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather – KITV Channel 4

Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Eruption: Here’s What Travelers Should Know

UPDATE 5/11/2018: A week after the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island began sending smoke and gas into the air and opening fissures in the ground along the volcano’s slopes, officials worry the worst is yet to come with a major eruption possible. The lava level in Kilauea’s main crater Halemaʻumaʻu continues to recede […]

8 facts about Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano

Kilauea continued to erupt wildly on Hawaii’s Big Island this week, shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air and burning homes to the ground.

As of Sunday night, 10 fissure vents were open in the area and at least 26 homes had been destroyed, according to the county civil-defense agency. The U.S. Geological Survey […]

Volcanic activity slows, but it’s ‘likely only a pause’

Lava and gas continued to erupt from Kilauea volcano across a remote, rural neighborhood on Hawaii Island, and by Monday had destroyed 35 structures, including at least 26 homes, authorities said.

By Monday, the emission of lava from multiple fissures had become minimal, the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said, but “this […]

Earthquake upgraded to magnitude-6.9

KAILUA-KONA — No tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-6.9 earthquake that struck at 12:33 p.m. Friday.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the temblor occurred on south flank of Kilauea Volcano. It initially reported the earthquake as a magnitude-6.0, but later upgraded it to magnitude-6.4.

“No tsunami is expected. Repeat. No tsunami is expected. However, […]

Leilani Estates eruption spreads to 4 fissures, more expected

Steaming cracks at 5:57 a.m. Friday in Leilani Estates subdivision, moments before a fissure opened up on Kaupili Street. (HVO/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Volcanic eruptions continue in Leilani Estates, with at least four fissures having formed by Friday afternoon, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The fissures involve mostly vigorous spattering and lava […]

Kilauea Erupts!