Big Island midwives and the Hawaii County Council are urging the state to remove a requirement that midwives must have a license in order to practice.

Three inmates who reportedly escaped Friday in a stolen car from Hawaii Community Correctional Center’s Hale Nani Facility remained at large as of late Wednesday afternoon.

A major unknown is if the Hawaii Supreme Court rules in favor of lawyers representing insurance companies opposed to terms of the Maui settlement.

The Pacific Tsunami Museum is in dire financial straits, and its organizers hope the community will step up and help it navigate out of troubled waters.

The reshuffled Hawaii County Council hopes to improve its relationships with the new county administration to get things done faster.

A Hawaii County homeless shelter established near Mamalahoa Highway in July has been disbanded.

Kai Kahele — a former state senator, U.S. representative and unsuccessful candidate for governor in 2022 — was elected chair of the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs barely an hour after he was sworn in for his freshman term as an OHA trustee.

Witnesses to a large structure fire Sunday morning in South Kona said flames quickly engulfed the second story of the two-story building.

The Queen’s Health Systems plans to build an 80-bed hospital next to the Kailua-Kona Costco on Hawaii island that would include a helipad to cut travel time to its trauma center on Oahu and, critically, construct adjacent, below-market-­rate housing to recruit and retain some of the estimated 300 hospital staff, nurses and doctors.