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STVRs measure advances

By STEFAN VERBANO Hawaii Tribune-Herald A Hawaii County Council committee voted unanimously April 7 toforward a controversial vacation rental bill to the county’s planning director and two planning commissions. The Policy Committee on Planning, Land Use and EconomicDevelopment meeting heard testimony both in support and opposition to Bill 147 – a measure aiming to redefine hosted and unhosted short-term rentals, establish working standards and punitive fines, and expand the list…Read more

‘We’re ready to go’

After seven years of hardship and anxious waiting, 71-year-old Deb Smith and her 72-year-old husband, Stan, should finally be able to drive home by the end of this year. The Smiths have been living at their 5-acre Kapoho Farm Lots propertyfor over half a decade, coming and going via bicycle, hauling groceries, building materials and off-grid supplies over a treacherous, rocky 700-foot trail traversing mounds of black lava cinders at the border of the 2018 lava field. Once across the…Read more

Recovery efforts underway after downtown Hilo fire

By GRACE INEZ ADAMS Hawaii Tribune-Herald Nearly five months after a fire ravaged multiple buildings in downtown Hilo, the cause is still unknown, but the investigation into the incident has been closed by the Hawaii Fire Department. According to a copy of the investigation report obtained by the Tribune-Herald, “due to the severity of fire damage and lack of recoverable physical evidence, no specific ignition source could be identified or conclusivelylinked to the fire’s origin.” While…Read more

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