With 2025 nearly here, it’s time to review an eventful 2024. Here are Hawaii Island’s the top 10 local stories of the year, as selected by the editorial staff of the Tribune-Herald.

The Big Island’s police chief hopes that the seizure of at least 75 tons of fireworks in Honolulu by the Illegal Fireworks Task Force over the past year will make for a somewhat quieter New Year’s Eve.

Making mochi for the New Year is a tradition that’s observed by many of Hawaii’s families of Japanese ancestry.

The Biden-Harris administration has rolled out a series of initiatives aimed at addressing homelessness across the nation, including Hawaii.

Hitachi’s lawsuit alleges HART’s seeming dysfunction to set timely schedules caused cost increases to go off the tracks by tens of millions of dollars — expenses the company says it’s been forced to absorb.

The outlook for Hawaii air service in 2025 remains down, especially after adjustments from Southwest Airlines and following Alaska Airlines’ purchase of Hawaiian Airlines.

The bill will overturn a decades-old change to the program that had been made to limit federal benefits to some higher-earning workers with pensions.

The program has the capacity to serve approximately 3,000 households at a time, ensuring that all survivors have access to the necessary support and resources.

The days when people lined up for the COVID-19 vaccine are now a distant memory.

Interisland travel could be cheaper, cleaner and lower under a proposal by a partnership between state agencies and a private transportation developer.

The EPA said it was “disappointed” by the Navy’s decision not to participate in the meeting and had assessed a $5,000 fine for not attending.

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A“jaunty” sea bug captured on film by a Kailua-Kona man is the star of one of the world’s preeminent wildlife photography contests.