KAILUA-KONA — Martin Charlot’s first step off the plane was a step through time.

KAILUA-KONA — A contemporary New York City poet a couple decades back in a now-famous lyric exclaimed that more money means more problems.

KAILUA-KONA — Coral submerged in the typically crowded Kahaluu Bay is amid a reprieve from human traffic, which began Monday morning and continues through today.

KAILUA-KONA — An iconic Alii Drive park area continues to wait for a facelift that’s now two years in the making.

KAILUA-KONA — Lalamilo Wind Company in April filed an administrative complaint with the Hawaii County Department of Water Supply in what could prove a predecessor to a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

KAILUA-KONA — Salvation Army Lt. Raghel Santiago and her husband, Lt. Jose Santiago, have spent every Thursday night since June 2017 exactly the same way.

KAILUA-KONA — Two Hawaii politicians are taking the issue of reef safe sunscreens national.

KAILUA-KONA — It’s been more than six weeks since the Department of Environmental Management stopped accepting green waste at the Keei Transfer Station in South Kona, and it doesn’t appear ready to re-open for such business anytime soon.

Correction: A previous version of this article used pronouns indicating that Kim Holland, founder of the Shark Research Group that operates as part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is a woman. Holland is a man. It the policy of West Hawaii Today to remove or correct any incorrect or misleading information as soon as it is brought to the attention of the publication.

KAILUA-KONA — A recent state Department of Health directive on the legality of the manufacturing, distribution or sale of myriad cannabidiol (CBD) products in the state has resulted in a measure of public confusion.

KAILUA-KONA — Clean drinking water is more or less a fact of life in the United States, but globally that makes the U.S. more the exception than the rule.

KAILUA-KONA — The Old Terminal Building at the Old Kona Airport Park will soon be a sight of the past.

KAILUA-KONA — The term “recycling” invokes images of sorting aluminum soda cans, tubs stacked with glass mason jars or bins full of plastic grocery bags, but re-usable material often comes on a far greater scale.

KAILUA-KONA — State and county crews spent a considerable amount of time and effort over the last two weeks dismantling established homeless encampments across Kailua Village.