Hawaiʻi Island

Hawaiʻi Island Mayor Kimo Alameda shares recovery updates after Hurricane Lala devastated areas like the Nāʻālehu Cemetery.

Hurricane Lala's impacts on macadamia nut farmers in Hawaiʻi come after years of compounding issues.

The funding will establish an adolescent inpatient behavioral health unit at the Kona Community Hospital, making it the only one of its kind outside of Oʻahu.

Hawaiʻi Island Mayor Kimo Alameda shares recovery updates after Hurricane Lala devastated areas like the Nāʻālehu Cemetery; The Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa plans new projects after receiving over half a million dollars in new funding.

One of the largest wiliwili trees in the state had the majority of its branches ripped off during Hurricane Lala. A critically endangered uhiuhi tree was also damaged.

Some of the state’s most famous coffee-growing regions on Hawaiʻi Island were also among the hardest hit areas during Hurricane Lala.

More than one million trees on Hawaiʻi Island have already been lost to the fungal disease Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, and Hurricane Lala may worsen that epidemic.

Recovery efforts continue on Hawaiʻi Island after Lala while Moke makes its way across Molokaʻi; recently appointed Honolulu Police Chief David Lazar talks public safety after Lala took out power on Oʻahu.

The North Kohala district on Hawaiʻi Island sustained heavy damage from Tropical Storm Lala. The Kohala Food Hub is helping. We get more on that from Pacific Business News Editor-in-Chief Janis Magin.

Zach Kennedy, general manager of Punalu'u Bake Shop in Nāʻālehu, shares how Lala devastated the beloved rural bakery and how the community has been recovering.