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Rescued Monk Seals Recover At Big Island Animal Hospital

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Two Hawaiian monk seal pups found malnourished on Laysan Island are recovering at an animal hospital on the Big Island. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team surveying the endangered monk seal populations last month in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands found the male and female pups were undersized and underweight. The recently weaned pups named Akulikuli and Maiapilo were expected in mid-September at Ke Kai Ola, […]

October 2, 2018

Hawaii Police Department

Talk Story With Local Police

The Hawaiʻi Police Department invites you to join them for COFFEE WITH A COP on October 3 “Coffee with a Cop,” encourages the community to ‘sit down and talk story’ with their police officers over a cup of coffee, to foster better relationships and for the community to get to know the officers. Topics of conversation range from personal stories to issues in neighborhoods. There is no agenda, and the […]

October 2, 2018

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Gamify the Vote

This Is Not A Game: THE GAME Comedy host Samantha Bee hopes that her show’s latest endeavor—a smartphone app called This Is Not a Game: The Game—might be able to shift some tides during this year’s midterm elections. The concept is simple: This Is Not a Game uses daily quizzes, a la HQ, to educate people about what’s happening in US politics and test the electorate’s knowledge. For cash. And don’t worry, the game isn’t […]

October 1, 2018

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Maya Gabeira Awarded Guinness World Record for Surfing Nazaré Behemoth

via The Inertia On October 28, 2013 Maya Gabeira nearly died at Nazaré. Now, five years later, she’s been awarded a Guinness World Record for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman—and she surfed that wave at the same place that almost killed herin January of 2018. You cann see it, below. The wave was officially measured at 20.72 meters, or 68 feet. But it was a very long road […]

October 1, 2018

Breaking News

3.7 Quake, North Kohala

A 3.7 magnitude earthquake rumbled through Hawi this morning at 12:05am. According to the USGS, the quake originated 11km SSE of Kapaau at a depth of 11.4 miles.

September 28, 2018

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The Hawaii Ulu Producers Cooperative

The cooperative links growers to buyers, including schools and hospitals, to help satisfy a growing demand for breadfruit. In just two years, the Hawaii Ulu Producers Cooperative (HUPC) has amassed 35 member farms, built a processing facility, harvested 53,000 pounds of ulu, and supplied 3,000 pounds of prepared ulu. For 2018, it’s on track to provide 12,500 pounds to all of the state’s public schools. It’s tangible proof that “it makes […]

September 26, 2018

Local News

Hawaii’s ‘Rapid Ohia Death’ Disease Is Killing the Forest Canopy

And There's No End In Sight from: NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE Mythology holds that the goddess Pele, in a fit of jealous rage, transformed the man she loved into a gnarly evergreen called the ohia. That’s the tragic tale behind the beautiful tree that, in its many forms, makes up most of Hawaii’s forest canopy. (It also grows as a shrub or an epiphyte—a tree that grows on other trees.) It would […]

September 26, 2018