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The young ‘ākeʻāke was caught on camera making its way out of its high-elevation burrow on Mauna Loa about a month before the current eruption and lava flow began.

The virtual event is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 6 p.m.

The basketball season runs from January to February. Games will be held at the Kalāheo Neighborhood Center gym on Saturdays.

Minors working with officials will enter businesses to purchase alcohol, during the operation running through early January.

Planned maintenance, including speed hump repair, is scheduled during the closure.

Josh Green, the state’s ninth governor, also names poverty and climate change as key issues for his administration during his inauguration in Honolulu on Monday.

“The [Mauna Loa] lava flow is advancing sideways to the west and east about as fast as it is moving forward,” said Ken Hon, Scientist-in-Charge of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

Local projects will receive a significant chunk of the $306.8 million announced by then-Gov. David Ige on Sunday.

Hawaiian legends tell many stories about sisters Pele, the goddess of fire and volcanoes and Poli‘ahu, goddess of snow.

George Kahumoku received the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Artists’ 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. In this interview, Kahumoku describes a Hawaiian culture that nurtured his life as a musician, his artistic routine, and the “accident” that made winning Grammys possible. Maui Now writer Gary Kubota interviews him.

Honolulu-based Elemental Excelerator invites college students to submit proposals for the US Department of Energy’s competition called EnergyTech UP. Cash prizes from the $370,000 pool are available to Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands teams that successfully identify clean-tech opportunities and submit a business plan.

The governor-elect will be sworn into office in Honolulu on Monday, during a free ceremony open to the public.

The US Postal Service’s suggested mailing dates are Dec. 17 for First-Class and Priority mail originating in Hawai’i and headed to the mainland.

Students will flex their design and engineering skills by creating a digital 3-D model of a wearable pin that celebrates their unique appreciation for veterans.

Thursday’s rescue operations put first responders at “tremendous risk,” says Fire Chief Michael Gibson.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu reported high surf produced by a large west northwest swell has fallen below advisory levels this morning.

Qualified taxpayers who have not yet filed their 2021 Hawaiʻi individual income tax return must do so by Dec. 31, 2022, to be eligible to receive the one-time Act 115 refund.

A local farming company will conduct a controlled agriculture burn near the Kaumakani makai area from 7 a.m. to noon, weather permitting.

Walk-up service for the Kaua‘i Police Department Records window will be closed today due to staffing shortages.

Judge Jonathan J. Chun swore in Kauaʻi Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami – who will serve a second term – and the new County Council members.