By MAX DIBLE West Hawaii Today | Sunday, December 16, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Clients leave The Friendly Place/Hale Kikaha on Thursday. (Laura Ruminski/West Hawaii Today) Jan Guard security personnel Gabriel Loseo mans the entrance to The Friendly Place and Hale…
By MAX DIBLE West Hawaii Today | Saturday, December 15, 2018, 12:05 a.m. A homeless man sleeps on the sidewalk across from the seawall on Alii Drive in Kailua-Kona. LAURA RUMINSKI/West Hawaii Today A homeless man sleeps on the sidewalk…
Forget the aloha shirts and gift cards. These ideas might prove more meaningful for the giver and the recipient. By Denby Fawcett / December 11, 2018 Reading time: 8 minutes. It is time for my annual gifts-with-meaning column to consider gifts that…
Video Here By Allyson Blair | October 11, 2018 at 5:23 PM HST - Updated October 12 at 10:20 AM PUNA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Five months after eruptions in lower Puna started, Hawaii County officials say they’re nowhere near close to having enough housing…
By Allyson Blair | October 5, 2018 at 5:12 PM HST - Updated October 5 at 10:10 PM HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Ige Administration is close to launching its first “ohana zones” statewide. While the state is still vetting sites, officials say the…
By STEPHANIE SALMONS Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Saturday, September 15, 2018, 12:05 a.m. HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald Connect Point Pastor Dion Maeda talks Thursday about the progress of construction at Hale Iki Village in Hawaiian Paradise Park. HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald The interior of one…
Published: Sunday, September 16th 2018, 5:08 pm HST Updated: Monday, September 17th 2018, 6:00 am HST By Ashley Nagaoka, Reporter PUNA, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Pahoa Emergency Evacuation Shelter, which once housed more than 500 lava evacuees, is scheduled to…
HILO, HAWAII (HawaiiNewsNow), May 31, 2018 - Hawaii Island was already struggling with a housing crisis when eruptions started in lower Puna. Now, things are much worse. "There are households and families outside the shelters camping, in encampments, tents and in their…
Hilo, Hawaii, May 17, 2018 / 04:45 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With ongoing volcanic activity continuing to threaten the area surrounding Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, local Catholics are offering a helping hand to those who have been evacuated. Fr. Ernest Juarez Jr.…
KAILUA-KONA, May 08, 2018, by MAX DIBLE, West Hawaii Today — Homelessness in Hawaii decreased for the second consecutive year, according to the 2018 statewide Point In Time Count Report conducted in January and released Monday morning. While the count…