Hawaii County released a final draft of its plan for the island’s development over the next 25 years.

About 3,500 homes, in addition to businesses, schools and other properties were damaged or destroyed in the catastrophe that forced thousands into shelters. But the numbers on a white board cannot measure the emotional toll on survivors.

Programs and health organizations across the island are working together to support breastfeeding mothers inside and outside of hospitals and clinics.

Tourism on the Big Island and Hawaii in general is down as high prices filter out overseas visitors.

An elementary school principal whose school is one of those impacted by what the state Department of Education says is a shortage of bus drivers said suspension of service to all public schools in the Hilo-Waiakea and Ka‘u-Keaau-Pahoa Complex Areas is “an inconvenience all the way around.”

After a year’s delay, the 28th KWXX Ho‘olaule‘a will return to downtown Hilo next year on Jan. 18.

The Hawaii Democratic Party has submitted to Gov. Josh Green the names of three people it has selected as possible candidates to succeed the late Rep. Mark Nakashima in state House District 1.

A downtown Hilo homeless shelter has been closed and relocated elsewhere in town, to the surprise of some of its new neighbors.

A hearing Tuesday to determine if Albert “Ian” Schweitzer and his brother, Shawn Schweitzer — whose convictions for abducting, raping and killing Dana Ireland on Christmas Eve 1991 were vacated last year by a judge — are “actually innocent,” turned out to be a contentious affair.