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Big Island police have located 18-year-old Nicole Bennett of Hilo who was reported missing. She was found in Hilo unharmed Thursday afternoon.

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The National Weather Service in Honolulu has extended the High Surf Advisory for Kona until 6 p.m. Thursday (Jan 12). Surf is forecast to reach six to 10 feet in height along West facing shores of the Kona coast. Beachgoers are advised to be cautious of dangerous rip currents and wave run-up along low lying […]

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Ed Case, U.S. Senate candidate, issued the following statement Wednesday, Jan. 11: To consider my United States Senate candidacy, you need to know what I’ve done and what I will do. Here’s a summary of my record as your Congressman from 2002 to 2007: http://www.edcase.com/images/uploads/Ed_Case_Congressional_Record_extended.pdf There is much more, and I welcome your questions on […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Walmart’s 2012 Acres for America program is helping conserve more than 49,000 acres of critical wildlife habitat across the United States. Acres projects connect existing lands to protect migration routes, provide access for people to enjoy the outdoors and help ensure the future of rural economies that depend on forestry, tourism and recreation. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that on Dec. 1, the government of Japan approved Rainbow papaya for commercial shipment to Japan. The Rainbow papaya is genetically engineered to be resistant to the papaya ringspot virus. “The market opening in Japan is great news for Hawaii’s papaya producers and even better news […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff Attorney and blogger Margaret Wille has announced she will run for the District 9 County Council seat. That seat currently is held by Pete Hoffmann, who cannot run again due to term limits. Wille has issued the following statement: A number of months ago, Councilman Pete Hoffmann called and asked me to […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island Beacon Community has awarded a $680,000 contract to North Hawaii Community Hospital to implement a Health Information Exchange system throughout the North Hawaii region, impacting more than 32,000 patients and marking the first step toward an island-wide HIE. Implementation has begun and will continue through 2012. NHCH’s existing vendor partner Wellogic […]

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The three small exoplanets orbit a star called KOI-961. Their radii are calculated to be 78, 73 and 57 percent that of Earth.

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Karin Stanton | Hawaii 24/7 Editor The Science Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the Thirty Meter Telescope board, is meeting for the first time on the Big Island this week. In addition to a three-day slate of meetings, the agenda featured a site visit Monday – the first time some of the astronomers and […]

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Hawaii Electric Light Company (HELCO) has announced that at approximately 5 p.m. an outage occurred on Middle Keei Road in Kona affecting 130 customers. The outage was caused by a motor vehicle crash that brought down one 40′ pole as well as damaging a guy pole and two spans of conductors. Hawaiian Tel and Oceanic […]

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The most recent edition of the Crime Stoppers television program “HawaiÊ»i Island’s Most Wanted” highlights a man wanted on five warrants, a woman wanted on four warrants, and two men and a woman wanted for failing to appear in court.

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Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will join all 397 national park units across the country in waiving entrance fees Jan. 14-16 to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Entrance fees will also be waived on Sat., Jan. 21 to honor the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s 100-year anniversary and Open House.

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Continuing on the path of investing in education, Governor Neil Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $14.2 million for additional Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) at schools and libraries.

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An autopsy has determined that 48-year-old Bonifacio Pako Alip III of Kailua-Kona died from a medical condition and not from a one-vehicle crash on Route 11 in South Kona on November 8. The Big Island’s fatality count for 2011 has been reduced from 23 to 22.

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