Hilo

Celebrating 500 years of Flora-n-Fauna, the Big Island Singers present three concerts this weekend in the Hilo area. Dr. Nina Buchanan and Music Director Douglas Albertson join Sharene Taba to talk about music, friendship, and community.

Goodwill Hawaiʻi is getting a new home in Hilo. The organization will move in once its recently acquired headquarters are renovated. Pacific Business News editor-in-chief A. Kam Napier has more.

Police on Hawaiʻi Island said they are aware of the growing community concern about a recent rash of violence allegedly caused by a group of teenagers calling themselves the “Score Gang.” The Conversation's Russell Subiono spoke to a police captain about the incidents.

Hilo residents Caseyleigh Sabate-Hauanio and Brandy Fontes say their children were threatened by the gang. The Conversation’s Russell Subiono caught up with them at a cafe in Hilo to talk about their experience.

After the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival’s pandemic-induced two-year hiatus, local businesses are taking advantage of crowds eager to do some Merrie Monarch-related shopping. HPR’s Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports.

The new Hilo Story Maps on the Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation website intertwines stories, archival pictures, history and topographical information to deepen our aloha for Hilo town. Lokelani Brandt is a senior archeologist with ASM Affiliates based in Hilo. She shared more about the project.

In today's Aloha Friday Conversation, we're looking at the intersections on politics and culture in the islands in the 1970s. Plus, a new story map of Hilo Bay!

Eleven inmates at the Hilo jail have asked a judge to release them early for public health reasons amid a COVID-19 outbreak. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports Hilo Circuit Judge Peter Kubota granted five of the motions but denied or postponed the rest.

Police are continuing an investigation into an officer-involved fatal shooting in Hilo.

The Yukio Okutsu State Veteran’s Home on the Big Island is officially under new management. This comes just months after a COVID-19 outbreak at the Hilo…